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.)
| 1856 Ruskin 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. 1866 Swinburne Lett. (1959) I. 165 ‘Guy Deverell’ I think too hasty—too blurred and ‘blottesque’. 1880 Daily News 3 Jan. 2/2 The Landscape..is powerful in the unaffected blottesque manner. 1885 Spectator 24 Jan. 119/1 The fashionable blottesque school, wherewith modern painters smear their way to ‘emolument and oblivion.’ 1886 Athenæum 19 June 808/3 The manner of relation [of the novel] might not inaptly be described as blottesque. 1934 H. 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.
| 1882 F. G. Fleay in Jrnl. Educ. May 146 To produce showy blottesques for framing in drawing-rooms. |
Hence bloˈttesquely adv., with blottesque effect.
| 1886 Ruskin in Pall Mall G. 19 Jan. 2/1 Putting my pen lightly through the needless, and blottesquely through the rubbish. |