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VMFA’s European Art collection includes more than 10,000 objects in all media—including paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and works on paper—dating from the early medieval period to the mid-20th century.
Forget the association of the word “Gothic” to dark, haunted houses, Wuthering Heights, or ghostly pale people wearing black nail polish and ripped fishnets. The original Gothic style was actually developed to bring sunshine into people’s lives, and especially into their churches.
25 paź 2024 · A groundbreaking new exhibition is shining a forensic black light on the influence of macabre Gothic art on some of the most radical painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. “Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light,” at Helsinki’s Ateneum Art Museum through January 26, 2025, reframes the origins of modernism, tracing how artists like Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz and Vincent van ...
Gothic art flourished in Western Europe with monumental sculptures and stained-glass window decorated cathedrals - marked by the pointed Gothic arch.
22 paź 2024 · The exhibition highlights how celebrated artists like Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz, Vincent Van Gogh and Marianne Stokes pushed the boundaries of art and society by drawing inspiration from Gothic art.
Gothic art, the painting, sculpture, and architecture characteristic of the second of two great international eras that flourished in western and central Europe during the Middle Ages. Gothic art evolved from Romanesque art and lasted from the mid-12th century to as late as the end of the 16th.
Explaining the symbolist aesthetic in 1895, the artist Maurice Denis cited gothic cathedrals, Gregorian chanting and ‘primitive’ art to show how human feelings and emotions inevitably find their plastic equivalent and corresponding beauty.
