![]() ![]() Just draw it the way you see it.‘ This Burton’s quote has inspired me to really draw what comes out of my mind, no matter what it is, and to be more focused on creating a new world for myself and fulfilling the needs of my imagination than on the final result. ‘ Don’t worry about how you ‘should’ draw it. Everything begins on the paper, and it is clear from the style of his movies that they developed from his love of drawing. Other movies that I really loved would probably be Corpse Bride and Sleepy Hollow, not to mention Frankenweenie and Alice in Wonderland.Īnother thing that I find inspirational about Tim Burton are his drawings, for really, there lays the whole essence of his later projects. I can’t even put it in words how much it influenced me in everything that I’ve done, and how it affects my work now still. To tell it bluntly, I was reborn after seeing Sweeney Todd for the first time! This movie enchanted me, I knew all the songs by heart and sang them all they long, I drew the characters, I wrote many short stories based on that ‘ Burton’s Victorian London‘. I already mentioned how I developed my first vision of the Victorian era as a result of watching Tim Burton’s movies, and although I’ll basically watch any movie that he directs, some are more dear to me than the others. He’s very good at reinterpreting the past, which is inevitable in art, and still managing to create something completely new and original.īurton was not only inspired by works of Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, and Edward Gorey, but also carried on with the style they had created, in Burton’s works enriched by the experience of living in an American suburb and being a loner. His world is a reflection of who he is, and that’s how it should be with all the artists, directors, writers…įor me, Tim Burton epitomizes the very term of ‘ modern Gothic‘ in a way that he perfectly captures the spirit of the Victorian era with obvious Gothic and Romantic elements, but all together, he succeeds in creating a magical, dreamy and spooky world of his own. On the other hand, Tim Burton’s world is a world of gothic fantasy, macabre, silly characters, with all the human flaws exposed in villains it’s a world of outsiders, a world Burton had created for himself and that’s what makes it so genuine. Classics represent the mainstream culture unimaginative, worn-out ideas, conformity a world created for mediocrity. Where the Classicism was organised and proper, the Gothic was chaotic, where classic was pure and simple, the Gothic was crooked and ornate the classics offered a world of clear rules and limits, whereas the Gothic represented something wild, exaggerated, dark and uncivilised. The contrast between Classicism and Gothic Art, can be well translated onto the clash between the mainstream and Tim Burton. There’s not a fresh well in art, music or literature, every one has by now been tainted by modern culture. The modern man has dipped his finger in everything. One can really say that something is in ‘ Tim Burton’s style‘ for he created a world completely new, fresh and exciting which I think is hard to do in this modern world because everything has already been seen, and tried out. I like how he took the very essence of this time period and, combined with many other influences, created a new aesthetic. Although I’ve read a lot about Victorian era, and I know Burton’s version is not accurate, I prefer it above all. He gave me the first vision of the Victorian era a vision which has haunted me ever since. I consider Tim Burton one of my greatest inspirations. As Burton had said himself ‘ I am not a dark person and I don’t consider myself dark.‘ It’s the truth, Kafka’s work is dark and heavy, Burton’s is magical and inspirational. ![]() And his world is not dark and negative as one may think, quite the opposite, Tim Burton’s world is like a refuge for an outsider, magical and full of hope, dark and funny at the same time. By watching any of them, you can simply dive into this new dimension, new aesthetic, new, crooked, vision of reality Tim Burton’s reality. ![]() The thing I love the most about Tim Burton is that he creates a whole new worlds in his movies. ‘ Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.‘ – Tim Burton ![]()
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