Modern Painting

Rome, 1955. The artists gather for a picture at a party in an ancient villa. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast canvases, larger than life, is at the center of the picture. His wife, Natalie, edges out of the shot. From the side of the room watches little Pinch - their son. At five years old he loves Bear almost as much as he fears him. After Bear abandons their family, Pinch will still worship him, striving to live up to the Bavinsky name.

To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family's remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than 20 years, she was host to and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the 20th century.

A finales del siglo XIX comienzan a sentirse los primeros gritos de alerta. Si en el XVI el pueblo rector era Italia, en el XIX Francia ocupaba el sitio de honor reservado a los caudillos artísticos, concretamente París. Y en París comienzan a sonar nombres y a exponer pinturas unos artistas que se revuelven inquietos bajo el peso del esteticismo impresionista. Toulouse Lautrec y Van Gogh son dos de los más representativos que se orientan por el camino del expresionismo.