The mere presence of the Virgin Mary immediately raises themes that must be considered in any artistic context. Mary, by western civilisation, has been turned into an Icon of fertility, maternity and youth and has been transformed into an iconographical theme herself. Doré was an active artist during the romantic period of the arts where he was commissioned to illustrate a version of the English bible and spent his life illustrating for many other religious works of literature.ĭepictions of the Virgin Mary, known otherwise as “Madonnas”, have been common within religious art spanning several hundred years of human cultural development. Gustave Doré was a French artist born in 1832 and dying in 1883. It is so visceral and unwelcoming, yet she is shown to care and cradle it, like it is her child.Ī piece chosen to compare to Rosaria is Gustave Dore’s “Madone” depicting a standing Virgin Mary and Jesus. The colour of the raw flesh is putrid and like rotting meat. The warmer colours of the flesh contrast against the leaden and colder colours of the background curtains and her black hair and dress. She appears significantly larger than the average woman giving her a sense of authority and godliness. Rosaria does not exhibit the natural proportions of a human being.
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Her skin is dark, like a corpse, and her dress loose, with the overall feeling of the character being sombre but oddly alluring and warm. It is overgrown, covering her face and flowing over herself and the creature like a religious veil. Her hair has strands of tan of in it, as if coated in a sort of pungent slime. Rosaria is portrayed as resting on her knees and looking down at a deformed and grotesque grub like creature. The designers have created a juxtaposition within aesthetics and theme to create a character that feels malevolent and inhuman, and maternal and caring at the same time. Although we are not directly observing the Renaissance period throughout this essay, the Madonna and other religious iconography are not specific to the period and still prevalent within the art of the following centuries. Rosaria, Mother of Rebirth is a non-playable character featured in Dark Souls III that shares certain similarities with the Virgin Mary and her representations in the Madonnas, primarily those of the Renaissance. Section I: Religion, Symbolism, and Semiotics in Art The viewer may also be referred to the as the “player” depending on the context of the discussion. I will also explain what effect the stylistic choices of the game have in terms of its narrative aspects and how this may affect the viewer. Here I will seek to analyse what techniques have been applied during the games design and what historical artworks have influenced the works aesthetic qualities and meaning. Instead of just being designed to please the average adolescent gamer, it is a game that throws the player into a world of decay and destruction, with only its visuals acting as a medium of communication from artist to audience.
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The Dark Souls series is set apart from other commercially produced video games through the idea that each design found within Dark Souls has a purpose and relevance towards the narrative of the game. The visual designs of the world and characters of Dark Souls, the application of the formal qualities of art to achieve certain emotions, atmospheres and its aesthetic drives the series forward in terms of its artistic integrity.
The series brings to light many philosophical issues such as the value of life, death, and nihilism Miyazaki and designers from FromSoftware have gained a reputation among video game critics for linking to tell the story of their games in a minimalistic fashion, not through text or dialogue, but through the environments, and in specific the designs found within the game itself. The games heavily draw upon the aesthetics of western historical art movements. are a series of Japanese video games set within a medieval dark fantasy setting. The Dark Souls series by Hidetaka Miyazaki of FromSoftware, Inc.
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