Saturday, December 19, 2009

Dan Flavin is one of the most amazing American artists. Using standard fluorescent tubes, he was able to shape a room using light.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.....this great story written by Washington Irving, is contained in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, and is one of the earliest examples of American fiction. You may recall Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane.



All the stories of ghosts and goblins that he had heard in the afternoon now came crowding upon his recollection. The night grew darker and darker; the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky, and driving clouds occasionally hid them from his sight. He had never felt so lonely and dismal. He was, moreover, approaching the very place where many of the scenes of the ghost stories had been laid. In the centre of the road stood an enormous tulip-tree, which towered like a giant above all the other trees of the neighborhood, and formed a kind of landmark. Its limbs were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air. It was connected with the tragical story of the unfortunate André, who had been taken prisoner hard by; and was universally known by the name of Major André's tree. The common people regarded it with a mixture of respect and superstition, partly out of sympathy for the fate of its ill- starred namesake, and partly from the tales of strange sights, and doleful lamentations, told concerning it.


Thursday, December 10, 2009

Besides being a film maker, Tim Burton is a writer. The Girl with Many Eyes is a story taken from the book "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy".







One day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girl
who had many eyes.
She was really quite pretty
(and also quite shocking!)
and I noticed she had a mouth,
so we ended up talking.
We talked about flowers,
and her poetry classes,
and the problems she'd have
if she ever wore glasses.
It's great to now a girl
who has so many eyes,
but you really get wet
when she breaks down and cries.

http://homepage.eircom.net/~sebulbac/burton/home.htmlhttp://homepage.eircom.net/~sebulbac/burton/home.html

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

One of the greatest American artist

Tim Burton  is at MOMA!



Here is the main information  for you to review and explore.


Taking inspiration from popular culture, Tim Burton (American, b. 1958) has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of personal vision, garnering for himself an international audience of fans and influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics. This exhibition explores the full range of his creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film. It brings together over seven hundred examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, photographs, moving image works, concept art, storyboards, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera from such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood, and Beetlejuice, and from unrealized and little-known personal projects that reveal his talent as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer working in the spirit of Pop Surrealism. The gallery exhibition is accompanied by a complete retrospective of Burton’s theatrical features and shorts, as well as a lavishly illustrated publication.

for further information http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/313

Merry Xmas!!!!!

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