Seoul Museum of Art: Tim Burton Exhibition

From December 12 2012 to April 14 2013 there is a Tim Burton Exhibition going on in the Seoul Museum of Art. I would say go on a week day or during the morning because when I came at about 3 on a Sunday this is what I saw…

…and it went back a bit further, but I wanted to get the arrow-circle thing in the picture. After paying 12,000 for a ticket, I had to wait inside for about 20 minutes. then get into another line at the top of the stairs to go in though his mouth:

and then there were about a million people who pushed me though even though I was trying to watch a video but if you stop then everyone must stop and apparently going around you is a no-no. Once I started to see things I had already seen (from bonus features on DVDs) I was skipping over groups of people and getting odd looks. Oh well…(said like Jack Skellington). For the most part you are not allowed to take pictures but I sneaked a few

Many of the drawings I had already seen, as stated, in DVD bonus features. So, if you’ve seen one or two of those from Tim Burton movie DVDs then you might want to skip the attraction. For all the pushing, not being allowed to take pictures, the sheer number of people, the number of those people who had no idea why they were there, and stuff I had already seen I wish I had skipped it.

There was one thing at the end that I quite enjoyed:

Museum of Modern Art

Modern art museums can depend a lot on the current exhibitions and how you generally feel about the museum anyway. Some people will always hate them and some people will always love them and say really random crazy sounding things about the art as to what they are getting from it. Other people, like myself, can look at one thing and not feel anything and wonder why someone considered that art, look at something else and wonder what happened in a persons life to make them so dark, look at something else and think it is a great drawing or photo but not necessary modern art, look at something else and love or hate the political implications.  I had all these feelings at the Busan Museum of Modern Art. And saw some stuff that did look like modern art to me (as opposed to the stuff that is just a pile of something and someone just tagged the word art onto it)–but I’m not posting those pictures here.

See below for photos of certain ones under headings (similar to above) of how I feel about them. First though, there were some papers that laid out Korean history, starting in the 1950s (in the basement) and starting in 2002 on the 3rd floor. They covered North Korea, politics, changes in population, education, feelings toward foreigners, technology and media and below are some of the ones I thought were the most interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Those most relevant to foreigners….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art?

Darkness

 

The one below was darker than anything else because of the track that was playing over and over again: the Reindeer got hit by a car playing in a few different languages

Good photo or painting, but modern?

Political