The Kandinsky Show

I went to see the Wassily Kandinsky retrospective at the Guggenheim. I chose this show because i enjoy Kandinsky's work, not that it has any influence on my own, or not that i know of. However, after the third or fourth circle i realized that i couldn't fully get behind what he was doing. This i found very amusing, because it seemed to reflect some of my thoughts towards making work. Iv seen his work before and have admired it, however it was only one or two at a time at like the met or something. I have never been exposed to such a massive amount of Kandinsky. His later work couldn't help but be reminded of art hung at a department store entrance.
This show sort of reinforced my reluctance towards working abstractly. I had made abstract art in the past and my work was basically trying to find a way for me to unite that with representation, but recently i have found myself working only representationally and also responding more to representation. I have read his book "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" and sort of understand what he was doing, in terms of trying to use music as a sort of visual language. I think the problem for me is here. Music is naturally more abstract then any sort of 2D visual expression. It exists in a time and space while painting exists in a 2D space manifested by the artist so music in its creation is subject to natural order of our physical world. This allows there to be more standards and structure in music then in painting, which means there is less room for interpretation at the basic level of music (tones notes chords) so they cant be equated to basic levels of picture making (line form color) because every mark can be interpreted differently.
I went to this show thinking cool, massive Kandinsky show and the Guggenheim (awful museum btw) is free, its gunna be a good day. I was expecting to get blown away by tons of abstract paintings and it turned out that it was his early representational stuff done on dark paper or canvas is what i really wanted to see. I left a little disappointed but after a while of thinking about the shows affect on me i realize how important of a show it was.
There was also an awesome site specific Anish Kapoor sculpture installation thing called Memory. It was a gigantic iron eggish form that was stuffed into a room and the only way to view it was through 3 different doorways.