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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in order to express his emotions, leading to his unique use of colour and form. Although his works received heavy censure at the time, in later years they would become greatly influential.

The first public exhibit of C. G. Jung's The Red Book, at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan, is described and linked to the Guggenheim's simultaneous retrospective of the work of Wassily Kandinsky. The author draws parallels and contrasts between the work of these two twentieth-century geniuses, one working from a scientific perspective and the other from an artistic perspective. In particular, each was dedicated to a relationship to an inner world of true imagination, one which emerges from a dedicated process of self-discovery. Each attempted to find a way to restore soul and spirit during a time when the Zeitgeist emphasized scientific rationalism in a one-sided way to the expense of human values and a harmonious relationship with the natural world.

IT WAS no mere chance that a resurrection of abstract art occurred after the last war. Three different forces were responsible for this revival. They received a strong impetus during the war, but their origins lie much further back.

Kandinsky made only ten Compositions, of which three were destroyed in the second world war. In the third room of the exhibition are two sketches for 'Composition II', one of the lost paintings, featuring interlocking schematic figures including a horse and rider, a sign Kandinsky used for the transformative power of art.

If ever I was passing the Courtauld Institute in London with five minutes to spare, I'd chuck the woman behind the desk a fiver, jog up the 300-year-old spiral staircase and go and look at a picture by Wassily Kandinsky called 'Rapallo: Grey Day'. I know nothing about painting and I knew nothing about Kandinsky except what it said on the wall: that he was Russian and that he travelled around Europe at the turn of the last century with a female artist called Münter.

The faultlines are never far beneath the surface.