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When De Kooning takes the floor at the symposium "What is Abstract Art?" held at the
MoMa in 1951, the artist, who had gone through different pictorial journeys until he reached
abstraction, refers to art as the always mute part you can talk about forever. And it is a great
definition. From the beginning, abstract art has generated an intense debate that transcends
artistic theory. Issues such as language, the formal or what is represented return again and
again to the center of the discourse. "Even animals realize that we are not at home in the
interpreted world." Hegel …