What is Gothic?

I typed the word Gothic into Google and these are the types of things that came up in the search results.

This picture is an example of Gothic because:
- Its dark and gloomy
- Is a twist on the traditional way a church usually is
- It has Gothic architecture features has such as tall spires, ribbed vaults and flying buttresses
- Its big yet intricate with a lot of detail
- Beautiful yet uninviting
- Cold and intense with a bit of mystery seeing as you cant see into it
- Corruption of religion as it is a church that has been turned into something fairly dark and unpleasant
- The ideas of death that are linked to churches 

 

This picture is an example of Gothic because:

- It is bold and very in your face as its unusual 

- Dark and uninviting, the way they dress doesn't really make you want to go and talk to them 

- Everything is over exaggerated 

- Manipulation of religion,  Christian cross and prayer beads (necklaces) 

 - Contrast of colour - pale face and dark clothing and make up 

- Pushing boundaries and being outside the norm

- Mysterious don't know who she is or what she actually looks like as she has changed what she looks like 

This picture is an example of  Gothic because: 

- It has a sense of sadness and decay as the head stones are collapsing 

- Ideas of death - crows, graveyard, church darkness

- Quite mysterious and gloomy due to the darkness - cant make it all out 

- Contrast of the greenery to the broken gravestones and dark church - out of place

- Cold, uninviting place, quite scary 

This picture is an example of Gothic because:

- Its elegant and feminine yet bulky and bold

- Ideas of death and darkness 

- Twist on old, traditional styles 

- Unique and unusual, stands out 

-  Contrast between the feminine flower oval and the skeleton lady 

- Could perhaps suggest sadness and suffering - skeleton lady