Tim Burton

Fill in the gaps in this biography of Tim Burton

Tim Burton was ___born_____in 1958, in the city of Burbank, __California__________.

He remains without question one of the __most______ original film director_________ working in ____Hollywood________ today.

Indeed, his talent and originality have kept him at the ________ of the profession where he occupies a very special place, somewhere ___________ the mainstream and the avant-garde, in that region of cinema occupied by artists ______ worldview is _______ unconventional that it attains popular appeal.

In 1989, Tim Burton directed the hugely _____popular_____ Batman which, although his _______ personal film, was one of the most _____seen_______ movies of all time and gave him unprecedented _____fame______ in Hollywood, considering the originality and adventurousness of his ____________ films (for _________ Beetlejuice in 1988).

Edward Scissorhands (1990), another hit, saw him at the peak of his ___artistic_____ powers and established a fruitful working _____________ with ___________ Johnny Depp who played in his 2005 film _____charlie and the chocolate factory________of Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and who became one of his most esteemed ___actors_______since their first film together.

In 1992, Batman Returns was a __much_____ darker film than the original, a reflection of how much ____________ freedom Tim Burton had won (_______ Warner Bros were reputedly unhappy with the final result).

And even _________ Ed Wood (1994), his loving ___________ to the life and work of the legendary ‘Worst Director of All Time’ Edward D. Wood, Jr., was a box-office disaster, it got some of the best _____films_______ of Burton’s career.

In fact, Tim Burton is __famous____  both for his dark, quirky-themed ____movies_______like Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, or Dark Shadows (2012) and for ____________  such as Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland (2010), one of his most  ____famous____ films, which became the fifth highest-grossing film of all ___times____.

Burton has ____received_______ 18 feature films as of 2014, and has _________ 12 as of 2012  (among which the very nice ______-______ tale called The  Nightmare Before _______________ in 1993).

All in all, Tim Burton’s films consistently challenge the spectator’s ___________, push forward the ____________ of filmmaking and bring to life previously unthinkable ____________ (like Edward Scissorhands).

Taken as a whole, his work ____________ on the confrontation ____________ the fantastic and the _____________, and the consequences of these two worlds intermingling.

Big Fish, Burton’s 2003 effort, is no different. And ______, somehow, it is not really the _________.

On the surface, it would appear to have all the ___________ of a classic Burton film: a magic screenplay, fairy-tale characters, flights of imagination, forces of nature ( _____ well _______ the supernatural), far-fetched situations and vastly imaginative visual style and imagery. The movie is, in fact, ________ packed with fanciful episodes that it begins to feel ___________ a loose adaptation of The Odyssey, told from the mouth of an aging character named Ed Bloom, a story-__________ and dreamer who sees the world with beautiful eyes.

An art exhibtion review

"Pop art myths" was an exhibition from 2014. It was exhibited in the "Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza", in madrid, from June 10 to Septembre 14 of 2014.



The artists involved belonged to the Pop art movement wich emerged in the late 50's and early 60's. An iconic artist of the movement was the famous Andy Warhol who started the movement with a few other artists like Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi. The exhibition was on for 3 months in a museum in madrid. It is the curator of the museum who was involved in the creative process.

I found the exhibtion well done because it doesn't only show us what we already know about pop art like portraits of Marilyn Monroe or beans cans but it shows us pop art that the public doesn't know. I really liked the work with the word "EAT" composed of light bulbs. As I really saw the exhibtion, I can say that this work is much worth it in real as it composed of bulbs and in a virtual visit the light is less striking. I don't know why this work stayed in my memory, but we can surely say it is pop art as it suggests the american way of life with the bulbs that makes us think of the typicall miror in wich actors look at themselves before playing their role in Hollywood and the word "EAT" in capital letters that can suggest the exagerated production and consumption of food in the U.S.. I could criticize the fact that in the virtual visit we can't see the titles of the works, their artists, their date and it's a pitty because it is important to know the context and the credits. I chose the painting "Retroactive II" from Robert Schaunenberg as it is one of the works that I still remember and I think the artist's message is shared in a very subtle way.


Retroactive II, Robert Schaunenberg, 1964, 213x152cm

This image is a collage from the year 1964, it has a pretty big size. The painting is composed of many layers; photos, paint, paper. What strikes at first sight is the familiar sepia tone photo of J.F Kennedy, who's pointing more or less in our direction. Next to it is another photo of a spaceman, the colors are contrasting as this one has more of a blue and cold tone. We can kind of see a vehicle at the top of the painting and a part of an old painting, also in the same tone as the spaceman, certainly from the renaissance. At the bottom of it we can assume there's a box filled with fruits, maybe apples. The painting is also composed of a lot of unclear pictures, like if the artist wanted us to doubt about what we can see.
The artist represented two American idols, J.F Kennedy and the spaceman which can also be assimilated to myths, that they may become in the future. But the painter didn't want to praise these characters but to criticize all the events of the period, we could think of the war in Vietnam if we make a link between the vehicle (it seems to be a war vehicle) and the president. With the spaceman we could also think of the Cold War and the race of space conquest between americans and soviets
I think this painting is very subtle as we could think at first sight that the painter is praising these American Idols but he is in fact criticizing them. The painting seems disordered and messy and I think the artist wanted to link it to the state of his country at the time, U.S. wasn't in a stable situation, a lot was happening with the U.S. and the rest of the world.
I thought the exhibition was also well done, I think it is important to see pop art exhibitions nowadays because I think it is present everywhere in art, a lot of artists nowadays are in fact descendants of pop art movement. We can now some street artists that mix pop art and street art that emerged at the same moment.