drip painting
Flung paint technique
Drip painting is a technique in which paint is dripped, poured, or splattered onto a horizontal canvas rather than applied with brushstrokes.
Associated most closely with Jackson Pollock and abstract expressionism, the method emphasizes gesture, chance, and the physical act of painting itself: The museum's collection includes several drip paintings from the 1950s.
Scatter in drops
- pourSend liquid streaming out
- gesturalRelating to body movements
- brushlessWithout friction contacts
- pouringFlowing in volume
layering · fluidity · spontaneity · freeform · unplanned · randomness · gravity · enamel
Acting without forethought
- gestureCommunicative body movement
- emotionComplex psychological state
- subconsciousBelow conscious awareness
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
impulse · energy · vitality · catharsis · unrestrained · psyche · automatism · existential
Heavy woven cloth
- acrylicSynthetic resin or fiber
- sticksSlender wood pieces
- trowelsSmall flat-bladed tools
- turpentinePine-resin solvent
pigment · drop cloth · buckets · viscosity · layering · gloss · matte · varnish
- abstract expressionismNonrepresentational art emphasizing spontaneous emotion
- Life magazineHistoric illustrated news periodical
- arenaVenue for contests
- gestureCommunicative body movement
Not depicting reality
- gestaltIntegrated perceptual whole
- all-overCovering the whole surface
- color fieldArt of saturated expanses
- dynamicsStudy of forces
movement · kinetic · organic · chaos · complexity · interwoven · atmospheric · depth
splatter
Scatter in drops
pouring · layering · fluidity · spontaneity · freeform · unplanned · randomness · gravity · enamel · sticks
spontaneity
Acting without forethought
- gestureCommunicative body movement
- emotionComplex psychological state
- subconsciousBelow conscious awareness
intuition · impulse · energy · vitality · catharsis · unrestrained · psyche · automatism · existential · anxiety
canvas
Heavy woven cloth
turpentine · pigment · drop cloth · buckets · viscosity · layering · gloss · matte · varnish · medium
Jackson Pollock
- abstract expressionismNonrepresentational art emphasizing spontaneous emotion
- Life magazineHistoric illustrated news periodical
- arenaVenue for contests
nonrepresentational
Not depicting reality
- gestaltIntegrated perceptual whole
- all-overCovering the whole surface
- color fieldArt of saturated expanses
dynamics · movement · kinetic · organic · chaos · complexity · interwoven · atmospheric · depth · flatness
impasto
Heavily applied pigment technique
webs · drizzles · spatters · pooling · ridges · encrusted · glossy · matte · thick · thin
- paintingwatercolor, oils, watercolors, acrylics, gouache
- art techniquesdrawing, sketching, shading, blending, cross-hatching
- contemporary artconceptual art, contemporary art, digital art, contemporary artists, modern art
- Modern Artcubism, Cubism, Fauvism, dadaism, Dadaism
- abstract artabstract art, abstract expressionism, abstraction, expressionism, abstract composition
- messes in artsplatter art
drip paintingbrushwork
Painter's stroke method
stippling · hatching · hard-edge painting · trompe l'oeil · photorealism
drip paintinghyperrealism
Theory of simulation dominance
technical drawing · architectural rendering · botanical illustration · scientific illustration · Vermeer
drip paintingstill life painting
Artwork depicting stationary objects
easel painting · motionless · frozen · still
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