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2006 Organizational Crisis 2006 Organizational Crisis Painted against the possible election of Alterini as Rector of the University of Buenos Aires in mid-April 2006, when he neared the end of the mandate of Guillermo Jaim Etcheverry, should be called to elect a new Rector. To this end, the Superior Council of the UBA convened five times to the University Assembly, none of these meetings was made possible due to making schools and colleges by the Federaci n Universitaria de Buenos Aires (FUBA). One of the reasons given by the FUBA-backed human rights organizations such as the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo "was the opposition to the candidacy of Atilio Alterini, accused of having collaborated with the self-styled National Reorganization Process, in which, without however, resigned as Judge of the House that he had obtained in 1977 and served for a year, the end of the process in a technical position in the municipality of Buenos Aires.The FUBA imposed as a condition for the Assembly to be reformed by the University charter previously considered undemocratic. The indictment was based, among other arguments, the low participation of students in government bodies, the high number of teachers who can not vote in his cell because it is not regularized and exclusion from participation of non-teaching employees. During the attempted meeting, which was to take place on May 2 at the Faculty of Medicine, FUBA members and students took that option, unleashing a wave of violence when student activists clashed with militants Guild workers are not teachers. At the end of the mandate of Guillermo Jaim Etcheverry on 7 May, the Vice Chancellor Berardo Dujovne took as his replacement, his term expiring a week later. Under Article 101 of the University Statute was temporarily the rectory older dean Alfredo Buzzi. On May 29, following the resignation of...
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Abstract Art The development of Kandinsky to abstraction finds its theoretical justification in "Abstraction and Empathy" Wilhelm Worringer, which was published in 1908. Worringer argues that the hierarchy of values to use, based on the laws of the Renaissance, is not valid to consider the art of other cultures, many artists create from reality but with an abstract impulse that makes the latest trends in art den less materialistic societies. Kandinsky, like Piet Mondrian, was interested in theosophy, understood as the fundamental truth that lies behind doctrines and rituals in all religions of the world, the belief in an ultimate reality behind appearances, provides an obvious rationale to abstract art. In Concerning the Spiritual in Art, talks about a new epoch of great spirituality and the contribution of painting to her.New art must be based on a language of color and Kandinsky gives guidelines on the emotional properties of each pitch and each color, in contrast to theories of color oldest, he is not interested in the spectrum but only in response soul. Composition 8, Kandinsky 1923. Guggenheim Museum, New York In 1913 one of his works presented at the Armory Show in New York and, at the outbreak of World War I, returned to Russia and settled in Moscow until 1921. From the October Revolution of 1917, Kandinsky develops administrative work for the People's Commissariat for Education, among the projects of this organization is the educational reform of schools of art.In 1920 he was a founder in Moscow INJUK (Institute for Artistic Culture), during this year a dispute arose between Kandinsky, Malevich and other artists idealists against the productivist (or constructivist), Vladimir Tatlin and Aleksandr Rodchenko The latter group found strong support in "the plan of monumental propaganda" devised by the political authorities of the Revolution. The situation enabling the output...