Drip painting

Drip painting is a form of abstract art in which paint is dripped or poured onto the canvas. This style of action painting was experimented with in the first half of the twentieth century by such artists as Francis Picabia, and Max Ernst, who employed drip painting in his works The Bewildered Planet, and Young Man Intrigued by the Flight of a Non-Euclidean Fly (1942).^[1] Ernst used the novel means of painting Lissajous figures by swinging a punctured bucket of paint over a horizontal canvas.^[2]

Drip painting was however to find particular expression in the work of the mid-twentieth century artist Jackson Pollock.^[1] Pollock found drip painting to his liking; later using the technique almost exclusively, he would make use of such unconventional tools as sticks, hardened brushes and even basting syringes to create large and energetic abstract works.

Jackson Pollock used house paint to create his signature drips. House paint was runny or in a liquid state as opposed to traditional tubes of oil paint. House paint and sticks/hardened brushes permitted Pollock to create an overall fluid line that blew the traditional divisions of foreground/background and central focus out of the water.^{[citation needed]} His gestural line create a unified overall pattern that allows the eye to travel from one of the canvases to the other and back again. Sources for the drip technique include Navaho sand painting. Sand painting was down flatly on the ground. Note that this is how Pollock worked. Working flatly, and his drip didn't drip.^{[clarification needed]} Another source is the "underpainting" techniques of the Mexican muralists painters. The drip–splash marks made by mural painter David Alfaro Siqueiros allow him to work out his composition of a multitude of Mexican workers and heroes.

Contemporary artists who have used drip painting include, Lynda Benglis, Rodney Graham, Roxy Paine, Pat Steir, Andre Thomkins, Zane Lewis, and Zevs.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Emmerling, Leonhard (2003). Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956. pp. 63. ISBN 3822821322. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K-ZZmvjJ_-IC&pg=PA63. 
2. ^ King, M. (2002). "From Max Ernst to Ernst Mach: epistemology in art and science.". http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/papers/wpades/vol2/kingfull.html. Retrieved 2009-08-11. 

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