Goth, formerly referred to as the Goths, belongs to the Germanic tribe of Western Europe. At the same time, Goth is also an artistic style. The main features are towering, gloomy, strange, mysterious, and horrible. They are widely used in various art fields such as architecture, sculpture, painting, literature, music, clothing, and fonts.
Gothic art is exaggerated, asymmetrical, peculiar, light, complex and much decoration. It is characterized by frequent use of longitudinally extending lines. The main elements include bats, roses, solitary castle, and crows, crosses, blood, black cats, etc.
The Origin Of The Gothic Style:
Its origin was from the German Goths who invaded Italy and disintegrated the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th century AD. In the 15th century, the Italians had the idea of rejuvenating ancient Roman culture and thus set off a splendid Renaissance movement. Since the Italians were always uncomfortable with the history of Goths destroyed the Roman Empire, in order to distinguish them from this period, they referred to the medieval art style as “Gothic.” Although the word “Gothic” is somewhat negative, in fact, the artistic value of a large number of Gothic style works is very high.
Gothic Architecture:
Gothic architecture originated in France in the second half of the 11th century and is an architectural style popular in Europe from the 13th to 15th centuries. Often used in European cathedrals, monasteries, churches, castles, palaces, auditoriums, and some private homes, its basic components are pointed arches and rib cage vaults, the overall style is tall and thin. The Gothic architecture expresses the strong feelings of mystery, mourning, loftiness with remarkable architectural skills and has a great influence on other arts in later generations. Its charm comes from the aesthetic experience of proportions, light, and color, that is, through the metaphysical contemplation of light and the symbolic understanding of the numbers and colors, get the soul out of the worldly matter. Although this building was once popular throughout Europe, it was once quite despised during the Renaissance in Europe.
Gothic Movies:
In the 1990s, the Gothic film used Gothic culture as a carrier to push Gothic culture into a renaissance period. Although all countries in the world already have a lot of horrors, horrors, ghosts and strange movies, it seems that no country can be like the United States and Britain has produced many excellent Gothic-style film works, and its influence is not limited to Europe and the United States. Australia, Asia, and other parts of the world have a loyal audience of “Gothic.” The famous Gothic style movies include “Edward Scissorhands”, “Dracula”, “Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles”, “The Crow”, “The Wolfman”, “Sleepy Hollow”, “Queen Of The Damned” and “Corpse Bride” and many more.
Gothic Style Clothing:
Anything black or dark color, such as navy blue or dark red. Can be transparent (thin nylon or fishnet mesh fabric), silver ornament, pale skin. This may be because they need an appearance of a living dead person. It may also be because of the desire to embody the aesthetics of the Victorian era: “Pale skin is the hallmark of aristocrats.” It may also be a theory of health against the beach culture: “The bronze-color that the sun shines out is beautiful.”
Gothic Style Font:
Its main features are slender, bizarre, retro, ornate, with some dark, sacred colors, black and white, often used in scripture transcriptions, ancient books, and tattoos, in harmony with other Gothic art forms. Special fonts are mainly used in the Latin alphabet system (eg English, German, Russian, French, etc.).
Gothic Music:
Gothic music is the subject of gloomy, emptiness that expresses human nature, and it also has a strong interest in death. Slowness, sadness and even terror are the characteristics of its music. The contemporary Gothic music has the obvious correlation with the romanticism of the 18th and 19th centuries. The lyric poetry, the theme of death, exploration of destruction and darkness are the common manifestation mode of Gothic artists.
