The Art of Tim Burton, Standard Edition

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All I had the first time I went to work with Tim on Edward Scissorhands aside from the images arriving in my mind, was a tiny drawing that Tim had made. One look at that drawing was all I needed to understand what Edward was about. It has been exactly the same ever since.” His Inspirations But perhaps no style is more overt in the work of and more closely associated with Tim Burton than that of the gothic. Tim Burton films are obviously gothic — but with a twist From this list, you get a clear sense of the zany, colorful, slightly surreal and over-the-top influences that resonated with Burton as a kid. It’s not easy to locate the full list of films online, so we’re presenting it here for your further Burton study and edification. Between his love for Vincent Price, Edgar Allan Poe, skeletons, and cemeteries, Burton soaked up plenty of gothic inspiration as a child. But remember — he also grew up in peaceful, quintessentially suburban Burbank, where he was constantly fascinated with thoughts of ominous and dark things lurking beneath the surface. Tim Burton is the creative force behind some of the most celebrated films of the last four decades, internationally recognised as a master of the comically grotesque and the endearingly misfit.

By the time Disney released Burton’s full-length feature version of Frankenweenie in 2012, Burton’s name had become an undeniable brand of its own. And that brand was still closely associated with Disney, which had by then happily embraced him as a producer and director on several of its films. Describing his on-again, off-again relationship with Disney to the Independent upon Frankenweenie’s 2012 release, Burton simply said, “I’ve been hired and fired by Disney three different times. I’m used to it.”Tim Burton ist im Herzen ein Künstler. Doch anstatt nur zu malen und nach seinem Tod berühmt zu werden, hat er seine Magie in Filmen gebannt. Doch das Problem, das alle Künstler*innen haben, bleibt: Er malt immer und überall auf alles, was nicht davonläuft. Also haben sich Leah Gallo und Holly Kempf hingesetzt und über 4.500 Puzzleteile zum Wahnsinn Burtons sortiert - Notizbücher, Bilder, Serviettenbildchen, Sketche und Konzepte für Filme und und und. Dann haben sie Weggefährten und Kollaborateure befragt und herausgekommen ist dieses 5 Kilo schwere Prachtwerk. Born in 1958 in Burbank, California, Burton grew up with an inverse relationship to his surroundings. Where Burbank was sunny and benign, Burton was moody, interested in the dark and the macabre. When other kids played ball and rode bicycles, he hung out in cemeteries and wax museums. He developed a love for Hammer horror films and B-movie sci-fi. He seemed to channel these sensibilities into his art, displaying a penchant for exaggerated caricatures and illustrations influenced by a range of pop art from advertising to children’s illustrators to comics.

As a mature artist, Tim Burton’s work married his love of the surreal to stories that stripped away the banality of everyday, politely civilized life. Vincent and Frankenweenie are about normal boys feeding their love for the grotesque within quiet normal households. The Nightmare Before Christmas is about the unholy juxtaposition of Halloween and Christmas. Sweeney Todd sees a serial killer opening up a respectable barber shop; though based on an existing musical, its themes fit perfectly into the Burton portfolio. And in Edward Scissorhands, Edward’s nightmare house is next to, well, this: A scene from Edward Scissorhands. Paramount Pictures via IMDB The too-bright visuals and overly stylized tone of this scene in Sweeney Todd let you know it’s an Expressionist dream sequence. The contrast between the dark and brooding couple and their bucolic surroundings let you know it’s Burton-esque. Paramount Pictures via IMDB In Latin America, the annual celebration of the Day of the Dead is traditionally accompanied by a host of colorful depictions of skulls and skeletons. Among these are reanimated skulls and skeletons known as calaveras, and calacas, skulls and skull masks worn during ceremonies. Burton’s work is full of references to calacas and calaveras. The Calavera Oaxaqueña by José Guadalupe Posada. ca. 1910. Library of Congress The Day of the Dead in Burton’s Corpse Bride. Can't say Tim Burton is an incredible artist, but that's what makes every piece true. He's not doing it for money or because he's really good at it. It's one of the only ways he knows how to express himself, whether its on paper or camera. Having it all bound into this wonderful cloth covered book is fantastic. Not too mention the Deluxe edition looks great on any shelf or table.

His Inspirations

At CalArts, Burton animated several short films and developed his signature style as an illustrator of characters with amusingly exaggerated features. One of his student works, a partly silent animated short called Stalk of the Celery Monster, once again earned him attention from Walt Disney Studios, which brought him on as an animation apprentice after his graduation from CalArts in 1980, drawing mainly concept art and models for features.

This ridiculously massive tome is the first ever comprehensive look at the personal and project artwork of Tim Burton. 11.25 x 12.25 x 1.75 inches A comprehensive look at the personal and project artwork of Tim Burton. Text By: Leah Gallo, Design by: Holly C. Kempf, Edited by: Derek Frey, Leah Gallo & Holly Kempf This is the First Edition, First Printing of the deluxe edition limited to 1000 copies signed by the artist.Grab your pin-stripe trousers and dishevelled green wig. Fans of Tim Burton’s halloween-tastic films will be over the moon to hear that next year they’ll be able to step into the gothic fantasy world of the director at the Design Museum.

I’ve had the good fortune to see the images Tim dashes off to communicate an important thought to his collaborators. Economically but sublimely drawn, they often put across one simple-but-great-idea. His narrative temperament dictates an expressionistic visual style that selectively reveals the emotional heart of his story: one that entertains without burying meaning beneath multiple layers of expository clutter and gratuitous business’. Edward Scissorhands (1990) Tim Burton Beautiful, magical and a wonderful way to spend a couple of hours. Sitting in a huge chair with this epic tome balanced on your knee, especially with an equally large mug of coffee next to you. : ) The Art of Tim Burton: The Artist Before The Filmmaker Offering a Valentine, Tim Burton (1980-1986) A general sense of visual distortion, the use of dialed-up color contrasts, looming architectural shapes, and an overall sense of heightened reality, are all further key parts of the aesthetic that form basic components of a “Burtonesque” look. Expressionism has influenced so many subsequent art and film styles — everything from film noir to Surrealist art, from art deco architecture to midcentury horror — that its impact on Burton’s own style hardly makes him unique. However, from here on out, his influences may seem even more surreal. A scene from Tim Burton’s 1986 episode of Faerie Tale Theatre finds Aladdin entering an Expressionist cave of wonders. YouTube And here Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp) is in his own garden of wonders a few years later. 20th Century Fox via IMDB The Day of the Dead made a huge impression on Burton Walpole essentially expanded the tone of gothic architecture and gothic art into what we now know as gothic literature — a genre full of distinctive, familiar horror tropes: huge dark buildings looming up out of the mist; tortured heroes and antiheroes meeting their doom over a tragic lost love or an unearthed secret from their past; and a sense of delight in the sinister, the grotesque, the weird, the bloody, and the terrifying. Gothic sculpture, late 15th century, Amiens Cathedral. Eric Pouhier Gotham is true to its name with layers of Gothic architecture in Burton’s Batman (1989). Warner Bros. via IMDBComprised of works from his signature films and projects including The Nightmare Before Christmasand The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories(1997) to never-before-exhibited artworks, The World of Tim Burtonis a deeply engaging experience that gives the public access to the artist’s very personal and singular output. Over the years, Burton has achieved both critical and commercial success in the live-action and animation genres.2007’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Streetwon the Golden Globe for Best Film—Musical or Comedy and earned Burton a National Board of Review award for his directing work.Many of his films – such as Ed Wood (1994),Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003),and Alice in Wonderland(2010) – have garnered numerous Academy Awards, BAFTA, and Golden Globe nominations and wins, cementing his status as one of the greatest film makers of our time. The real strength in Tim’s artwork is his appreciation of form with strong shapes and exaggerated proportions. Within a few seemingly simple pen lines, he creates bold silhouettes […] You would be mistaken for thinking that some of Tim’s rough sketches are rudimentary, loose or naïve, for they hold vital information, demonstrate a great delicacy, sensitivity, consistent keen eye, and a stunning vision’.