Dripping (from drip, "dripping" in English) is a pictorial technique characteristic of Action Painting, one of the modalities of abstract painting.
And the most typical one in the late 1940s by Jackson Pollock, the dripping has some parallelism with the surrealistic automatic writing.
The pictorial material (which is not usually oil, but some type of opaque enamel or industrial varnish, as used for the first time by Pollock himself around 1947) is left to drip on the fabric spread on the floor from a Container pierced or spread by splashing, directly with your hands or by using brushes or any other instrument.
In the 1950s and 1960s, dripping was frequently used by European informal movements.
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