THE DRIPPING FOREST (2008)

ACRYLIC ON CANVASS

BY AVRUM ROSENSWEIG

Artists go through different phases and chapters in their careers. When I painted the Dripping Forests I was experimenting with dripping paint. One day previous to the creation of this piece I  had dripped a little paint on a painting, as a whim, to get a sense of what it might look like. It was fascinating to watch as that line of red, or blue or green dripped and dripped all the way to the bottom of the canvass.

I think that people look at art through their own filter and determine its meaning based on their own experiences, and therefore saw the dripped art as tears. This is not a sad painting so they must be happy tears.

Dripping art is fun and makes the canvass very full if you allow the paint to drip right off the bottom. Use paint in a bottle and squish it out in globs. The outcome can be fantastic.