Drip painting is a form of
abstract art in which paint is dripped or poured onto the canvas. This style of
action painting was experimented with in the first half of the twentieth century by such artists as
Francis Picabia,
André Masson and
Max Ernst, who employed drip painting in his works
The Bewildered Planet, and
Young Man Intrigued by the Flight of a Non-Euclidean Fly (1942). Ernst used the novel means of painting
Lissajous figures by swinging a punctured bucket of paint over a horizontal canvas.