Word: posterishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made A-bombs, 3) the "horrors of bacteriological warfare." What they were for: "An art which will draw inspiration from socialist realism and be understood by the working class." Among the signers was one French artist who has tried just about everything except the flat, travel-posterish style of "socialist realism" and who has never seemed to worry much whether the working class understood him or not. His name: Pablo Picasso...
Oneto pictures sometimes have a slick, posterish quality, rely too often on monotonous tricks of contrast for their dramatic effect. But at their best, as in his bleak Two Houses, they catch a lot of the mystery and melancholy of U.S. cities in the small hours...
Best-known painter in the show was Rome's 38-year-old Renato Guttuso, who once painted abstractly and was spanked for it by the party (TIME, Jan. 24, 1949). A recent jaunt behind the Iron Curtain put his art on the left path. Guttuso's posterish picture of a woodcutter with a hatchet contemplating a sawed stump struck even Communist critics as being rather "too elementary." But it did win him a wood-burning stove...