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blottesque, a.|blɒˈtɛsk|
[f. blot v. + -esque, after grotesque, picturesque, etc.]
a. Of painting: Characterized by blotted touches heavily laid on. fig. of descriptive writing. (It belongs to the phraseology of Art-Criticism.)
1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. v. Pl. 27, Modern, or, Blottesque. Ibid. 80, I have given, Fig. 1., a Dureresque, and Fig. 3. a Blottesque, version of the intermediate wall. 1866Swinburne Lett. (1959) I. 165 ‘Guy Deverell’ I think too hasty—too blurred and ‘blottesque’. 1880Daily News 3 Jan. 2/2 The Landscape..is powerful in the unaffected blottesque manner. 1885Spectator 24 Jan. 119/1 The fashionable blottesque school, wherewith modern painters smear their way to ‘emolument and oblivion.’ 1886Athenæum 19 June 808/3 The manner of relation [of the novel] might not inaptly be described as blottesque. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. I. vi. 345 My notes and comments were sometimes more blottesque than edifying. Ibid. II. vii. 424, I sat down..to my blottesque red corrections again.
b. quasi-n. A roughly-executed picture, a daub.
1882F. G. Fleay in Jrnl. Educ. May 146 To produce showy blottesques for framing in drawing-rooms.
Hence bloˈttesquely adv., with blottesque effect.
1886Ruskin in Pall Mall G. 19 Jan. 2/1 Putting my pen lightly through the needless, and blottesquely through the rubbish. |