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Tim Burton Art Exhibition Entrance
Burton has been influenced by actors such as Vincent Price who was the protagonist in many horror movies including “The House of Wax” (1975); film makers such as Ray Harryhausen, a visual effects creator, writer and producer who developed a stop motion model animation known as Dynamation (Burton regularly works with stop motion as seen in his films Vincent, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie); impressionists’ and expressionists’ work especially German expressionists which is quite apparent in Edward Scissorhands; painters such as Vincent Van Gogh whose paintings he was very fond of as a child; and, writers/poets such as the work of the famous American writer/poet and cartoonist Dr Seuss and Edgar Alan Poe's poems such as The Raven.
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Burton's world is a huge influence upon his artwork. Growing up Burton spent a considerable amount of time at the cemetery near his home talking to the "scary guy who dug up graves". Today, from the gothic office in Belsize Park in north London (which belonged a century ago to Arthur Rackham, the illustrator of Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland and The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm) to the pair of adjoining mews houses he shares with his eccentric partner, Helena Bonham Carter and their two young children, Burton is constantly surrounded by inspiration for his characters. Burton will frequently sit in a dark corner of a bar with a sketch book using the people he sees as motivation for his drawings. Burton explains, "I am not a big technology person.....drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by." Burton is not an extremely articulate man (Bonham Carter likes to call him "a home for abandoned sentences") but his friend Johnny Depp and his partner Helena have the ability to understand Burton's disjointed visions for characters, themes and plots which encourages the growth of Burton's ideas.
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