What exactly is "Gothic"?

Question

i mean i know the sterotype: wear black, have chains and spikes and the mainstream's idea of it but i want to know exactly what it is.

Answer 1

Being goth has nothing to do with what clothes you wear or music you listen to, it is a way of thinking and seeing the world. The clothes that goths wear and the music that goths listen to is just a reflection of that mindset. Goths see that there is extreme pain and evil in the world, along with the good. Instead of condemning it or ignoring it, goths accept these things as a part of life and try and enjoy the good along with the bad, since they can't stop the bad from happening. They are not obsessed with death, they just accept it as an inevitability. They do not try and cause more pain in their (or anybody else's) lives, since there is plenty to start with. Goths tend to be kind, intelligent, non-violent, emotional, and artistic.

Answer 2

Gothic is actually a term of art. if you look at old catherdrals they have Gothic art around everywhere with the murals, etc. I guess people now have taken that aspect and seen it as something so gloomy and dark which is why maybe they try to copy that. Not so sure why they think all black is goth since it's really not,

Answer 3

Its nothing really its pretty much just a style.. the people who actually is Gothic they just wear those stuff because it reppisense they're music.

Answer 4

Gothic is of the 13th - 15th century and can pertain to architecture, art and clothing styles.

Answer 5

You said what it was basically. Goth ...style..came from the gothic times way back when, also came from the rocker music.

Answer 6

Gothic may mean:

As it relates to the Goths (Gothos, Getas), a Germanic tribe:

Gothic language
Gothic alphabet
From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman', hence:

High Medieval northern European art, especially architecture:
Gothic art
Gothic architecture
International Gothic, a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s
Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century
Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
Blackletter (Gothic script), a script developed in the Middle Ages
From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general (synonymously with Teutonic), with grim overtones:

Gothic novel, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later
From its use in Romanticism, the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy:

Gothic horror
Goth subculture
Gothic rock
Gothic metal
Gothic fashion
Gothic (computer game), a roleplaying computer game
Gothic (movie), a 1986 film by Ken Russell
Gothic (album), a 1992 album by the heavy metal band Paradise Lost
More recent uses:

Another name for sans-serif typefaces
Japanese gothic typeface, a common printing style in Japanese printing
Gothic chess, a chess variant



Gothic fashion is a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress. Typical gothic fashion for women includes gowns, corsets, veils, teased hair, eyeliner, black fingernails, fishnets, and styles borrowed from the Elizabethans and Victorians. Gothic fashion is part of the goth subculture, which consists of individuals who over time have been labeled as goths by early music industry managers of Gothic rock and the gothic music scene.

click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fashion

Answer 7

often gothic Of or relating to a style of fiction that emphasizes the grotesque, mysterious, and desolate.

Answer 8

it mostly not giving much of a care,and being not so obsesed with other things like boys,or makeup! it means to be grony mony,and just sometimes sad disapponted ,etc..........

Answer 9

It's associated with the medieval period.

Answer 10

It is everything that you make it. Stereotypes are an opinion.