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Museum of Modern Art – Tim Burton Exhibit

Despite this progression, throughout all of Burton’s work there is a sinister style that is distinctly him – even in the artist’s earliest work. His work is not frightening in a typical blood-and-guts horror way. It is much more dark and subtle, with an underlying criticism of society beneath the twisted humor on the surface. All of his pieces view the world through this cynical lens. My favorite series involved clever literal interpretation of common phrases such as “Holding Hands,” “Enjoying Each Others’ Limbs,” and “Undressing with Your Eyes”. Respectively they featured a couple holding severed hands; eating each other’s limbs; and demonic eyes with claws undressing a woman.