Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sparks Fly. Amid the cathedral-spired Gothic-solid buildings at Yale University, Art Historian Vincent Scully Jr., 45, excitedly defines the aim of his teaching as putting "the right word together with the visual fact so that all of a sudden sparks fly and a new skill is born: the ability...
...Rather little wool for a very great cry." George Saintsbury's epigram was Ann Radcliffe's epitaph; for more than a century her quaint gothic masterpiece has been buried among bookworms. Yet for half a century before that, from 1794 until the triumph of Dickens and Thackeray, The Mysteries of Udolpho was an international bestseller, acclaimed by Coleridge as "the most interesting novel in the English language." It enchanted Keats, who under its influence wrote The Eve of St. Agnes; it electrified Byron, who stole its hero and called him Childe Harold; it directly inspired Sir Walter Scott...
...painted little, concentrated instead on making an artistic "Center of the World" out of his Hudson River estate. At Olana (thought to be a corruption of the Arabic meaning "our place on high"), Church once again spoke superbly for his age. An eclectic marvel combining elements of Italian villa, Gothic revival, Ruskinian Venetian, French mansard, the mansion stands amid 327 acres of woods and meadow, chock-full of Oriental rugs, Thonet chairs, Tiffany glass and Persian tiles...
Durer was coping with a transition between the German Middle Ages and a Renaissance in the North. Although he grew more classical and refined in his manner of expression, he remained, throughout his career, Gothic in spirit...
...intentions of this exhibition is to show how some of Durer's contemporaries and followers reacted to this period of artistic transition. The show's four drawings by Grunewald, working within the Late Gothic style, sacrifice the cold solidity of form, which was part of the Renaissance style, to intense emotional expressionism. Lucas Cranach the elder (see his Lucretia as shown here) employed serpentine line and drew expressionistic figures until he came under the influence of Durer's restrained style. He later abandoned his intimate detail for an economic and abstract style, although suggestions of restless Gothic form sneak into...