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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. The latter used the novel means of painting Lissajous figures by swinging a punctured bucket of paint over a horizontal canvas. Drip painting was however to find particular expression in the work of the mid-twentieth-century artists Janet Sobel and Jackson Pollock. Pollock found drip painting to his liking; later using the technique almost exclusively, he would make use of such unconventional tools as sticks, hardened brushes and even basting syringes to create large and energetic abstract works. Pollock used house paint to create his signature drips that was less viscous than traditional tubes of oil paint; Pollock thus created his large compositions horizontally to prevent his paint from running.