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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...
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President of Venezuela will attend the Summit in Copenhagen The president confirmed his attendance along with that of his counterpart Evo Morales to the XV Summit on Climate Change said that during the time of the ALBA discussed the joint position that will block the appointment.Venezuela with 130 nations to developed countries seeking to comply with the Kyoto treaty Speaking on his departure from the second session of the Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), the Head of State Chavez said his counterpart in Bolivia, Evo Morales also attend the meeting. "Evo Morales and I will go to the summit, still do not know if Daniel Ortega will attend but so far both of us denote the Alba at that meeting," he said. He stated that during the time of the ALBA discussed the joint position that will block the appointment of Denmark. "We're adjusting a document adopted at Alba and will be our voice in Copenhagen. Venezuela leads to the summit an ambitious proposal to reduce gas emissions, 49 for the period established and also some of his experiences in environmental protection. The official delegation which so far is headed by the Director General of the Office of International Cooperation, Ministry of Popular Power for Environment, Claudia Salerno. The official said that in addition, our nation is in block with 130 other nations, in order to developed countries that meet the Kyoto commitments. "Our position," says Salerno is very sound and ethically strong, also have the legal status of our party. " Countries must also undertake to keep the global temperature to rise by two degrees Celsius, because that would be catastrophic.