The art of Tim Burton at MOMA

[SzczerbiakManiac]

from MOMA's site

This major career retrospective on Tim Burton (American, b. 1958), consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator. Following the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work, the exhibition presents artwork generated during the conception and production of his films, and highlights a number of unrealized projects and never-before-seen pieces, as well as student art, his earliest non-professional films, and examples of his work as a storyteller and graphic artist for non-film projects. The opposing themes of adolescence and adulthood, and the elements of sentiment, cynicism, and humor inform his work in a variety of mediums—drawings, paintings, storyboards, digital and moving-image formats, puppets and maquettes, props, costumes, ephemera, sketchbooks, and cartoons. Taking inspiration from sources in pop culture, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as a spiritual experience, influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics.

Embiggened version of the TV spot he made for this exhibit

[JWBear]

Bill and I are so there!

[Ghoulish Delight]

I have a copy of Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy. I would so dearly love to get it autographed.

I will have to find time to see this exhibit. As much as I've found his last decade or so of films to be meh, I have never been disappointed by his sense of the visual.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I have a copy of Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy. I would so dearly love to get it autographed.

I will have to find time to see this exhibit. As much as I've found his last decade or so of films to be meh, I have never been disappointed by his sense of the visual.

I left a copy of MDoOB in between two religious tomes on my parents' holier than thou bookshelf. I hope they find it during one of their 'Where did we go wrong with Brad' jags.