가을의 리듬(넘버 30)

In the autumn of 1950 Jackson Pollock was working in a converted barn on Long Island, at the height of the few years when everything went right for him. He had given up the easel. He tacked a large unstretched canvas straight to the floor and moved around all four sides of it, pouring and flicking ordinary household enamel from sticks and hardened brushes, so the paint never touched the surface until it fell. What looks like chaos is really a record of his movement, loops and skeins of black, white and brown laid over one another in layers. That same autumn a photographer named Hans Namuth spent weeks filming him at work. Pollock, who hated feeling watched, finished the filming, poured himself a drink after two years of sobriety, and never painted this freely again. The canvas is nearly nine feet tall and 17 feet wide, and hangs in the Metropolitan Museum.