Gothic style
For the long seven days holiday in China for National Day, it’s also a bust time for the cinemas. In the cinema, horror movies are good choice except the action movies. When coming to horror films, people are caught with vision and psychology. Such elements are due to the application of Gothic factors.
As a art style, which was used to distinguish the different styles in Medieval period in 5-15 century AD, are connected with horror, supernatural, death, decadent,witchcraft, Castle, the abyss, night, curse, etc.
Gothic (Goth) is the earliest Renaissance was used to distinguish the medieval period (5-15 century AD) art style, with vampire as symbol elements. The Gothic style with dark, fear,loneliness, despair artistic theme, and from the inner world of the sacred and the evil edge, depicted in between love and desperate struggle, scream of pain and sober. With the theme of darkness, horror, loneliness and despair, it depicts the edge of sacred and devil inner world and the struggle of love and despair.
Gothic, meaning “God”, so to some extent, it can be understood as the closer distance to God. In literature, architecture, music, dressing, etc., Gothic style has a long and profound influence.
Gothic architecture, originated in France in the second half of the Eleventh Century, basic component is a pointed arch and the ribbed vault, the overall style is tall and thin. The basic unit is the central skeleton with sharp double bonds in a square or rectangular plane angle of four columns on the diagonal edges and a roofing slate plane tickets at the formation of the vault.
In literature, the most famous Gothic novel is The Black Cat from American writer, Edgar Alan Poe. Gothic literature is a western popular literature. Most are about horror,supernatural, death, decadent and witchcraft.
In dressing and making up, Gothic style can be showed from the black cross collections. The simple black cross pendant necklace, with the black shadows on the eyes, then the bloody lipstick with the exaggerated black dress, the whole dressing will make people’s hair standing on end.
