Not Jack the Dripper

"[Pollock] was using both ends of the brush so that it wasn’t all that conventional, but he was not doing the so-called 'drip.' ...The word 'drip' ... makes me very uncomfortable. Actually, what is meant there is that it was aerial and it landed instead of [being] in contact with the canvas ... I don’t know how to describe this aesthetically, but 'drip' is a very bad substitute to try to explain it.

-- Lee Krasner on Jackson Pollock's painting technique.

Drip also implies a lack of control, but Pollock's painting technique involved control of the looseness of flowing paint, of recreating "happy accidents" from poured paint. If it were totally uncontrollable, how would he have been able to create a body of work?

Then again, drip is a word that just fits better with paint than action painting for instance. Because drip is exactly what fluid paint does. Maybe it should be action dripping, or active dripping?

See Also:
• What Paint Did Pollock Use?
• Review: Pollock Movie by Ed Harris
• Quotes from Jackson Pollock

^{Quote source: Lee Krasner interviews, 2 November 1964 to 11 April 1968, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution}