tim burton at moma

Untitled (Cartoons). 1980–86
Pencil on paper, 13 x 16” (33 x 40.6 cm)

Currently, there is an amazing retrospective at the NY MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) featuring Tim Burton. While I know it' s halfway across the globe, I think that the exhibition site is quite interesting. And Tim Burton is so inspiring anyway, so why not? :)

"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."

See the exhibition site: Tim Burton at the New York MOMA

See the trailer for Tim Burton's newest movie: Alice in Wonderland