Monday, January 07, 2008
Blottesque
A blottesque, funnily enough, is a painting featuring heavily blotted touches. Quite accidentally almost the same meaning as the one invented by Lorenzothellama. Thanks to everyone for coming back and playing the game again. I'm buoyed by the increased numbers and feeling happy again. And I'm sure Magdalene will be over the moon due to yet another win on the poll. Just too good. Speaking of too good, where's The Mad Fishicist these days anyway?
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A blottesque object, normally a room or piece of furniture, is one on which several messy children have been let loose.
Someone is blottesque if they are always making unnecessary ink stains when they write.
Blottesque is an architectural term for ugly buildings; e.g. structures that are a blot on the landscape. 1950's high rise blocks of flats could be said to be especially blottesque.
Just when you want to look your most attractive to the opposite sex and are also at your most self-conscious, you hit the blottesque phase of puberty. Yes, old spotty Muldoon appears in the mirror! Then begins the slow learning process, by trial and error, of how best to zap them causing the least amount of damage.
(Luckily, as a furry cat, no-one spotted mine!)
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You know how there's the saying "Blot your nose"? Well, Blottesque is the term that is applied when there are several people in a line (queue) who are blotting their noses simaltaneously or in some sort of pattern.
Blottesque is how you feel after a night when you went to bed far too late and were awakened every 90 minutes by an ill, restless cat.
(Hope you are having a more upbeat morning than I am.)
An arabesque is the ballet position with one leg back and the arms forward.
A blottesque is the opposite--both arms back and one leg forward.
Blottesque is a style of art that was popular for about six months in the early 20th century.
It involved small smudges of paint dabbed onto the canvas and immediately dabbed with a rag to smudge the paint. A picture was gradually built up.
One of the reasons the style never really took on was because it always looked such a mess. Perhaps it would go better now if the 'artist' said it was 'conceptual'.
Lorenzo.
Blottesque is when something or someone is not actually blotty, but is close to it.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
A Blottesque is a specialty store that sells decorative blotters for the executive's office.
Blottesque means "in a bullying fashion" or as a bully. I think it's a Popeye reference, filtered through France. The French loved Jerry Lewis and Popeye. In English we might've said "Bluto-like," but such a minor character isn't worthy of a whole word. Now Eddie Haskell, he's worth referencing...
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