Art In Mountain Shadows?

Is it true that Jackson Pollack and others too may have acquired  inspirations for paintings from Mountain Shadows? 

One day Jackson was hiking along the Appellation trail in the Adirondack Mountains and sat down on a log to rest when he noticed splotches of shadows moving over the ground around him from the light that was filtering through the leaves overhead from an oak tree nearby. There were splotches of pure white with patches of black and grey in-between.

When the breeze ruffled through the tree top the shadows on the ground appeared to dance and the white spots there seemed to almost sparkle. And so, he watched and imagined how all of this would look on canvass. He decided to simply sprinkle a pure white canvass with dribbles of black paint. 

Once back in his New York studio he spread a large canvass on the floor and with an ice pick stabbed some holes in a can of black auto enamel and let it dribble onto the canvass. The result is a legendary part of the history of American art. 

Dekooning and Hans Hoffman are both said to have used the same method to explore some of the shapes that they splashed over their larger canvasses.

And so it is that Mountain Shadows have contributed not only peace of mind to countless of Americans but have also inspired many poets and painters as well.

Once again we are reminded that, “The best things in life are not just fattening, but free too.