Word: posterish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what turned Davis into a complete original was his perception of and enthusiasm for the city. Nothing in French art, other than Leger, resembled Davis' syncopated images of urban life. The blaring posterish color- yellows, scarlets, blacks, emerald greens, a high obtrusive fuchsia - and the writhing knots of line, the words blinking like neon signs, the beat and pulsation of the space: this was visual jazz, American-style, and in deed some of Davis' titles, like The Mellow Pad, 1945-51, were couched in the musicians' argot...