Drip Painting

Drip Painting (English for " dripped painting", also Dripping or oscillation ) is a painting technique that was developed by the surrealist and Dadaist painter Max Ernst as oscillation and could be seen for the first time on the image The confused Planet (1942 ). It requires a blank tin is used, the fortified the artist on a string of one to two meters in length. It is provided at the bottom with a small hole from which the liquid, filled in the can of paint can escape. By moving back and forth oscillation of the can on a flat-lying canvas lines occur on the ground, reminiscent of mathematical graph. Max Ernst, the several painting and drawing techniques invented, which generate random structures, used the Dripping only in some images of his late work. This technique was known only by the American painter Jackson Pollock.

With Pollock it was mostly to quite large -scale works for which the canvas was placed on the floor on which the paint was applied dripping and flinging with large brushes, or even directly from the paint pots. Another, more extreme form of the drip paintings is the bulk image, as used for example by Hermann Nitsch, the color is even " dumped " on the canvas.

See also: action painting, all-over painting, Swirl Art, Lyrical Abstraction.

Literature and sources

• Christian Murken - Altrogge and Axel Hinrich Murken: From Expressionism to the Soul and Body Art: Processes of freedom. Dumont, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7701-1756-5.

• Style in painting
• Technique
• Contemporary Art
• Max Ernst