“The World of Tim Burton” is organized by independent curator Jenny He in collaboration with Tim Burton Productions. The impact of Japanese monster movies, Expressionist Cinema, Universal Studios’ horror catalog, and suspense maestros William Castle and Vincent Price also permeate Burton’s work.Ĭomprised of works from his signature films and projects including The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories (1997) to never-before-exhibited artworks, The World of Tim Burton is a deeply engaging experience that gives the public access to the artist’s very personal and singular output. His childhood sketches demonstrate Burton’s range and call to mind the work of his predecessors, including classic cartoonists and illustrators such as Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, Don Martin, and Theodore Geisel. Guided by the movies on television, comics in the newspapers, myths and fables told in school, and other forms of popular culture as well as the holiday seasons (when houses and lawns in his neighborhood were decorated with festive trappings), Burton incorporated these lifelong influences into his art at an early age. 1958) grew up in Burbank, California, a homogenous suburban American neighborhood that compelled Burton to find respite and escape from its blandness. Perhaps his most notable and well-known motif, the soulful melancholy of Burton’s iconic misunderstood outsiders-from Edward Scissorhands and Jack Skellington to the Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie-is deftly expressed in the drawings featured in the exhibition. For the role, she was awarded Best Actress at the Evening Standard British. The interplay between horror and humor figures prominently in Burton’s art and films and this theme of the “carnivalesque”-the mixture between comedy and the grotesque-is seen in projects from Batman to Alice in Wonderland (2010). Bonham Carter was nominated for a Golden Globe for the fifth time for her role in partner Tim Burton's film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), for which Burton and co-star Johnny Depp were also nominated. ![]() Frankenstein with an unfettered imagination. His amalgamations of man, animal, and machine are evocative of an artistically-inclined Dr. The exhibition reveals an inimitable style that is informed by Burton’s specific perspective.
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