Sounds by Vasily Kandinsky, trans. by Tony Frazer Ly Seppel a ‘rhapsody of rags gathered

a ‘rhapsody of rags gathered from several dung-hills

Emily Dickinson and The Smiths

steeped in art and literature

uncanny and otherworldly

oil on canvas

Sounds by Vasily Kandinsky, trans. by Tony Frazer Ly Seppel a ‘rhapsody of rags gatheredKlnge (Sounds) was Kandinskys only poetry publicationa collection of prose poems, accompanied by 56 of his own inimitable woodcuts, 12 of them in colour. It appeared in late 1912, or early 1913 (the exact date is uncertain) from the Munich publishing house, Piper, and thus came at a crucial time in Kandinskys artistic life: just after he had made the great breakthrough into abstraction, and likewise just after the publication of the seminal text, ber