Drip painting
Drip Painting ( Engl. For "dripped paintings" even Dripping or oscillation ) is a Technique that of the Surrealist and Dadaist painter Max Ernst as oscillation was developed and for the first time in the picture The confused planet was seen (1942). A tin can was used for this, which the artist attached to a cord one to two meters long. This had a small hole on the underside from which the liquid paint filled into the can could drip out. By swinging the can back and forth over a flat canvas, lines were created on the surface that are reminiscent of mathematical graphs. Max Ernst, who invented several painting and drawing techniques that create random structures, only used dripping in a few pictures of his late work.
Knud Merrild (1894–1954) used this technique, which he called "Flux Paintings" , at the same time, including the painting Perceptual Possibility from 1942 (Museum of Modern Art New York).
The technique became known in particular through the American painter Jackson Pollock . Pollock mainly created large-format works for which the canvas was placed on the floor. The paint was applied dripping and spinning with large brushes or directly from the paint pots. Another, more extreme form of drip painting is pouring painting , such as works by Hermann Nitsch and Josef Trattner .
See also
Literature and Sources
- Christ Murken-Altrogge and Axel Hinrich Murken: From Expressionism to Soul and Body Art: Processes of Freedom . Dumont, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7701-1756-5 .