#drip technique

Jackson Pollock was a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement and he was widely known for his "drip technique", which is what he used in this painting.

He was introduced to liquid paint in 1936 and learned many pouring techniques. By 1940 he had developed many techniques and one later on becoming recognized as the drip technique.

Jackson dealt with alcoholism and as a way to treat it he underwent Jungian psychotherapy where his doctor would engage with him by encouraging him to use his art to help. Later on in Jackson's art you can notice Jungian concepts and archetypes expressed in his paintings.

In 1947 he created his first drip painting and by 1950 when he created Autumn Rhythm, a nonrepresentational painting, he was at the height of his talent.

While composing this painting he poured, dripped, flicked, and splattered paint in very unorthodox means. He also used anything but traditional painter's tools (knives, trowel, and sticks) when making up the dense, lyrical compositions of this painting.

life without you - acrylic on canvas/drip series 24x36"

Drip series-red abstract- acryclic on canvas 16x16"

The Dynamic Fluid Art of Pat Steir

In the 1980s Steir developed a technique that involved applying paint exclusively by dripping and flinging it onto the canvas. Despite the freedom of execution and the large areas of canvas to be addressed, Steir exercises expert control over her methods, which she developed in part through in-depth study of Japanese and Chinese painting. The pouring process also evokes comparison with the work of Jackson Pollock—but rather than painting on the floor, Steir works from a ladder on unstretched canvas tacked to the wall, pouring and flinging paint, water, or solvent from oversaturated brushes and allowing the fluid media to cascade down the length of the support. As she has explained, "the paint itself makes the picture…. Gravity makes the image." Txt Met Museum