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Gothic style

   
Gothic style is described by many as 'a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress'

In most gothic style black is the overwhelming mysterious colour for men and women. Along with heavy lace which conotes a sex appeal.
Gothic women or icons will usually have dark black hair, light skin and blood red lips. Some may think this look replicates 'the walking dead'.
Take kristian stuart for example who staared in the 'Twilight' films.
  Twilight was created/written by Stephenie Meyer. It is a romantic story between two young lovers and has a typical vampire hero.

Gothic architecture

 
Pugin -Houses of parliment. Built in the middle ages when gothic architecture.
It is perhaps difficult for us to understand now, but at this time styles of architecture were regarded as political. During the long, almost continuous wars with France from 1792 to 1815, Gothic came to be seen as Britain's ‘national’ style - largely in opposition to the classical style (derived from ancient Greece and Rome) associated with France during the French Revolution and under Napoleon Bonaparte.
Gothic was hought to have originated in Britain

Gothic Films

Dracula - (1897 Gothic horror novel)
Fantom of the Opera - (film released in 2004)
Twilight - (First film released in 2008)
Nosferatu - (1992)
Frankenstein - (1931) Mary Shelly

Gothic Art

Damien Hirst - Skulll



Fuseli - British painter (The second of 18 children)


    

The gothic - Tim Burton

Tim Burton - Gothic direcrtor.

Films include: Alice in wonderland. Edward Siscor hands.

 Burton’s films can be used more broadly to
explore the centuries-old tradition of Gothic literature as well as more recent but wellestablished
film styles, genres and conventions.

Burton has always been fascinated by the dark and light aspects of life, consistently arguing
that one cannot exist without the other.