His films are cult classics: "Beetlejuice," "Edward Scissorhands," "The Nightmar
e before Christmas," "Alice in Wonderland." Less well known, but no less relevan
t, is the artwork that Tim Burton creates outside of Hollywood. His drawings and
paintings, poems and short stories delight his fans just as much as his adventu
res on the silver screen. In the spirit of Surrealism, Burton playfully blends e
lements from popular culture--cartoons, comic books and B-movies, as well as got
hic culture. This catalogue affords fascinating insight into the bizarre, magica
l imagination of this exceptional multimedia artist. And like the title of his n
ew film, these pictures leave the viewer in amazement, inspired, with "Big Eyes.
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American director, producer, photographer, and author Tim Burton (born 1958)
is known for his dark, gothic films about quirky outsiders, which have been nomi
nated for and won several Academy Awards. They include "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure"
(1985), "Beetlejuice" (1988), "Batman" (1989), "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), "B
atman Returns" (1992), "Ed Wood" (1994), "Sleepy Hollow" (1999), "Charlie and th
e Chocolate Factory" and "Corpse Bride" (both 2005), "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Ba
rber of Fleet Street" (2007), "Alice in Wonderland," (2010) "Frankenweenie" (201
2) and "Big Eyes" (2014). Burton has collaborated extensively with actors Johnny
Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
