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7 nov 2012

♥ TIM BURTON Tribute ♥

Arts: Explore Origins of Tim Burton’s Goofy Gothic


One of Tim Burton’s most famous characters, Edward Scissorhands, is way older than you think. “It was an idea from when I was a teenager,” says the director of Beetlejuice and the upcoming 3-D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. “It had been in my mind for a long time.” Ditto Jack Skellington, the leading ghoul inThe Nightmare Before Christmas: “That was just a doodle I kept drawing over and over and over for no apparent reason.” Those and other doodles (like the self-inflating cephalopod from 1994, below) are on display at the Museum of Modern Art through April. The show includes drawings a young Burton did for the local football team and for a litter-prevention campaign in his hometown of Burbank, California. Other memorabilia include original puppets from The Nightmare Before Christmas and severed head props from Mars Attacks! To unearth some of the forgotten gems, Burton sifted through boxes of old drawings he’d had shipped from a warehouse in the States to his home in England. “It helps ground you and gets you to remember what interested you to begin with,” Burton says. “I’ve never really felt like a writer. It was always a visual thing for me.”

"The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories" sketch, 1982-1984. Burton published a book of poetry and illustrations in 1997. This is one of the sketches he made for that book.
Self-inflating cephalopod, 1994
"Cartoons" drawing, 1980-1986

"The Black Cauldron" drawing, 1983. Burton sketched out scenes for Disney’s 1985 animated film, but unfortunately, none of his 200 drawings were used for the final product.
"Romeo and Juliet" drawing, 1981-1984. During his four-year apprenticeship at Disney studio, Burton pitched several movie ideas, including a reimagining of "Romeo and Juliet" where the tragic romance is between a land mass and the ocean.
"Number drawing", 1982
"Blue Girl With Wine", 1997
"Blue Girl With Skull", 1992-1999. Burton had some drawings he wanted to bring to life, so he grabbed a Polaroid for the first time and convinced his office mate Leticia Rogers and his costume designer Colleen Atwood to have a little fun with him. Some of the fun inspired the Sally character from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
"Trick or Treat" drawing, 1980
"Mars Attacks!" watercolor and pastel concept drawing, 1995
Red Queen sketch, 2009. In preparation for his 3-D interpretation of "Alice in Wonderland", Burton sketched the famed villain from the fable.
"Frankenweenie" drawing, 1982. In 1984, Burton made "Frankenweenie", a short film, for Disney. Company executives promptly fired him when he completed the film, claiming Burton wasted resources on a film that was too scary for their young audience. They finally released the video 10 years later, after the success of "Beetlejuice" and "Batman".
"Edward Scissorhands", 1990. Johnny Depp says that it wasn’t until he saw Burton’s sketches that he understood who he was to play. “I instantly fell for the character — he made his way into my body.”
"Nightmare Before Christmas" storyboard, 1993
"The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories" drawing, 1998
"Trick or Treat" drawing, 1980


EXHIBITIONS

Tim Burton

November 22, 2009–April 26, 2010
Theater 1 Gallery
Theater 2 Gallery
Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor
Museum Lobby


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Accompanied by the film exhibitions Tim BurtonTim Burton and the Lurid Beauty of Monsters, and Tim Burton Sidebar: Waking Sleeping Beauty and Forbidden Zone 

Read more about the exhibition at INSIDE/OUT, a MOMA/P.S.1 blog. 

Download the Family Activity Guide in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
Taking inspiration from popular culture, Tim Burton (American, b. 1958) has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of personal vision, garnering for himself an international audience of fans and influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics. This exhibition explores the full range of his creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film. It brings together over seven hundred examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, photographs, moving image works, concept art, storyboards, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera from such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood,and Beetlejuice, and from unrealized and little-known personal projects that reveal his talent as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer working in the spirit of Pop Surrealism. The gallery exhibition is accompanied by a complete retrospective of Burton’s theatrical features and shorts, as well as a lavishly illustrated publication. 

Burton's films include Vincent (1982), Pee-wee's Big Adventure(1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands(1990), Batman Returns (1992), The Nightmare Before Christmas(as creator and producer) (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Mars Attacks!(1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005),Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and Sweeney Todd(2007); writing and Web projects include The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories (1997) and Stainboy (2000). 

Organized by Ron Magliozzi, Assistant Curator, and Jenny He, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Film, with Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film. 

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Tim Burton is sponsored by Syfy. 

Additional funding is provided by The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.

Tim Burton. Untitled (Cartoons). 1980–86. Pencil on paper, 13 x 16” (33 x 40.6 cm). Private collection. © 2010 Tim Burton
Tim Burton. Untitled (Cartoons). 1980–86. Pencil on paper, 13 x 16” (33 x 40.6 cm). Private collection. © 2010 Tim Burton






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