posterishadj.
/ˈpəʊst(ə)rɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈpoʊst(ə)rɪʃ/ Resembling a poster; designed in the style of a poster.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [adjective] > other qualities or styles
plangent1666
dry1695
sticky1753
flat1755
spotty1798
touchy1809
definitive1815
edgy1825
painty1827
scratchy1827
unideal1838
tinglish1855
generalist1858
tinny1877
Christmas-cardy1883
tinty1883
surfacy1887
chocolate box1892
chocolate-boxy1894
Christmas card1895
juicy1897
candy box1898
pastose1901
busy1909
pompier1914
posterish1914
painterly1932
X-ray1940
illusional1942
all-over1948
figurative1960
hard-edge1961
1914 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 3 May 23/3 The posterish effect attained by the big flowers will be seen much this season.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 June (Suppl.) p. vi/4 Several cover-designs achieve posterish attractiveness.
1967 Listener 16 Mar. 355/2 The formalized, abstracted figures have become posterish and realistic like those in a Soviet hero painting.
2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Apr. 20/2 Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Seurat had begun a process where faces in paintings had a new hacked-out or curvy or posterish directness.
Derivatives
ˈposterishness n. rare
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > other qualities or styles
pastositya1806
touchiness1813
scene painting1834
horror vacui1845
texture1845
daguerreotypism1846
fruitiness1869
tintiness1886
posterishness1930
painterliness1950
non-figuration1955
simultaneity1957
hard-edge1961
figuration1962
colourfield1967
1930 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 25 Apr. 6 Norah Neilson Gray still seems to us to be straying too much towards a sweet but too pretty posterishness in her work.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1914