Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In painting, executed with heavy blot-like touches.
- noun A painting executed in this style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Painting) Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation.
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- adjective Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation.
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Examples
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What Ruskin, the realist, in his "Modern Painters" describes as "blottesque" was at that time looked upon by both teachers and students as the one and only means by which white paper could be properly stained.
Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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My thanks are particularly due to my friend Miss Robbins, who has very kindly redrawn the occasionally rather blottesque figures of the first edition.
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I think the reader would be amused if he could see the papers on my desk as I write all this, the mangled and disfigured pages, the experimental arrangements of notes, the sheets of suggestions balanced in constellations, the blottesque intellectual battlegrounds over which
Tono Bungay 1906
she commented on the word blottesque
First used by John Ruskin to criticize modern painting.
July 9, 2008
qms commented on the word blottesque
The painting begins as blottesque
The genius is found in what's next:
There's vigorous rubbing
(A furious drubbing!)
Et voilà! Un chef-d'oeuvre frottesque!
June 8, 2016