The Truth Behind Gothic Architecture and Interior & Why You Should Use It — Transcript

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1. 0:00there have been times when I have used
2. 0:02the term Gothic when speaking to
3. 0:04customers about their room designs and
4. 0:06you can immediately feel the hesitancy
5. 0:08the retraction the reluctancy when
6. 0:10speaking of the style but after I
7. 0:12explain to the customer what I mean
8. 0:15they're completely on born I want to use
9. 0:17today to bring some clarity as to what
10. 0:19Gothic is and what Gothic is not there's
11. 0:23a lot of misuse of this term and that
12. 0:25leads to
13. 0:27misunderstanding of the term and this
14. 0:29all stems from a lack of historic
15. 0:31research if I say Gothic to the average
16. 0:34person it's highly likely that certain
17. 0:37images subcultures and people will come
18. 0:39to mind that could deter someone from
19. 0:42using the design style in their home
20. 0:44it's also highly likely that the roots
21. 0:46Origins and beauty of which this word
22. 0:48truly defines will never cross the mind
23. 0:51in the past 40 years the word gothic has
24. 0:54been somewhat hijacked resulting in a
25. 0:56current state of interpretation that
26. 0:58pales in comparison into the rich depth
27. 1:01of its formerly understood nomenclature
28. 1:03let's start from what we think we
29. 1:05understand Gothic to be nowadays and
30. 1:07work our way backwards as I think that
31. 1:10will be the most helpful in this video
32. 1:13the most recent understanding of goth or
33. 1:16gothic is a music subculture that
34. 1:18emerged out of the late 70s and early
35. 1:2080s hippie psychedelic feel-good music
36. 1:23had become mainstream and punk music in
37. 1:26the late 60s was the extreme
38. 1:28counterbalance response to that
39. 1:30following punk in the Post Punk era you
40. 1:33had the birth of Gothic Rock which used
41. 1:35punk as its footing then Incorporated
42. 1:38darker dramatic notes chords and lyrics
43. 1:41this of course attracted a certain type
44. 1:42of people who then created a style for
45. 1:45the cult-like following of this genre
46. 1:47now the reason goth was used as the term
47. 1:50for the people of this music subculture
48. 1:53was to Define them as being Outsiders
49. 1:55who conducted their lives in a way that
50. 1:58wasn't common to others but this type of
51. 2:00goth had never existed before and they
52. 2:03do not have any type of deep historic
53. 2:05Heritage this word was misused in that
54. 2:08it acted as an adjective as opposed to a
55. 2:12noun the true term goth is short for an
56. 2:15actual germic people who existed in the
57. 2:17Roman era the tribes of the ostrogoths
58. 2:20and the Visigoths were nicknamed Goths
59. 2:24the Romans and Goths endured nearly 300
60. 2:26years of tension sprinkled with Wars and
61. 2:28conflicts although the r rans aimed to
62. 2:30use the Goths to defend their borders
63. 2:33they never viewed these people as equals
64. 2:35or even close to the same they viewed
65. 2:38these people as barbaric and uncivilized
66. 2:40simply because they lived differently
67. 2:43the word gothi was coined by Renaissance
68. 2:46artists in the early 16th century who
69. 2:48thought that the early medieval
70. 2:49architectural style was ugly and it
71. 2:52didn't conform to the classical ideals
72. 2:54they were trying to achieve they felt it
73. 2:56was beneath them unenlightened and
74. 2:58related it to their feelings of the goth
75. 3:01tribes in the past the famous Italian
76. 3:03Renaissance painter and architect
77. 3:05Georgio vasari Amplified this negative
78. 3:08connotation when he referred to gothic
79. 3:10art as monstrous and barbaric the truth
80. 3:13is that this type of architecture
81. 3:15evolved from Romanesque architecture in
82. 3:17northern France and it was a way of
83. 3:19bringing in lots of sunlight and
84. 3:21brightness into large and towering
85. 3:24structures many of them being churches
86. 3:26arches vaed ceilings stained glass large
87. 3:29Windows ribbed vaults these are all
88. 3:32characteristics of the Gothic
89. 3:34architecture these buildings were
90. 3:35created to be divine and holy quite the
91. 3:38opposite of how people view Gothic
92. 3:40architecture in a haunted and demonic
93. 3:43perspective gothic art did much of the
94. 3:46same in its focus on higher power and
95. 3:49connection to humanity the Figures were
96. 3:51more realistic the Expressions on the
97. 3:53faces more detailed the Vivid colors and
98. 3:56gold accents brought a sense of intimacy
99. 3:59again again quite the opposite of how
100. 4:01people think of Gothic nowadays however
101. 4:04the style did become more associated
102. 4:06with darker elements within the
103. 4:08literature and art world when famous
104. 4:11writers such as Edgar Allen Poe
105. 4:13referenced the style and put a different
106. 4:15spin on things it became intriguing to
107. 4:18view these medieval rooted Creations
108. 4:20through a darker lens and ask oneself
109. 4:23what would it be like if these Grand
110. 4:25structures were not bright and holy but
111. 4:28dark and somewhat sinister what started
112. 4:30as a fictional and imaginative view took
113. 4:33off as a mainstream perspective so the
114. 4:36next time you're thinking about styling
115. 4:37a room which will convey Heritage a
116. 4:40richness of personality and ornate
117. 4:42design do not shy away from looking into
118. 4:46Gothic influences you would be surprised
119. 4:48at how much this style has influenced
120. 4:51some of the most prominent structures
121. 4:54and Interiors on Earth so visually
122. 4:56striking and beautiful they're revered
123. 4:59and they have stood the test of time if
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