drip painting

American  

noun

1. a technique of abstract painting exemplified chiefly in the later works of Jackson Pollack and marked by the intricately executed dripping and pouring of the paint on a canvas placed on the floor.

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Etymology

Origin of drip painting

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

At least two carry $100 million asking prices, including Jackson Pollock’s drip painting, “Number 7A, 1948,” and Constantin Brancusi’s 1913 bronze bust, “Danaïde.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The moisture is slowly evaporating from the beads as the show continues, leaving intertwined bits of shifting sediment behind — a river-made Pollock drip painting, as it were.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2022

The M.F.A. owns a drip painting called “Number 10, 1949,” which hangs in its Art of the Americas wing.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2019

It takes us inside a museum, where a proper-looking gentleman who appears to be around 70 is shown from the back as he holds his fedora and contemplates a large-scale drip painting by Jackson Pollock.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2010

As much as any drip painting by Jackson Pollock, “Cypresses” is an event in itself, explicitly connected to the vivid, high summer world Van Gogh was actually looking at — not just remembering or channeling.

From Washington Post