Expanded painting: Movement and Stillness
Stillness For the subject of the painting on stillness I decided to depict a film still from the film of Dino Risi's "Il Sorpasso"(1962). I found this significant because the film is all about speed while the still I chose shows a moment of stillness where the two protagonists rest on a deserted beach in the early morning. While the film still was in black and white, I used a limited colour palette where the dominant colours are chromatic greys, blue and brown. I have applied the acrylic paint in simple colour blocks alternated to parts in the painting where the colours are more blurred together, for example in the see, and this alongside the limited range of tonality, conveys a sense of calmness and suspension. The simplicity of the style, and the blurring of forms is also aimed to expresses staticity. I particularly like how the figure in the background came, because it really looks as if he is sleeping and in a calm state. I am not convinced about the figure in the fo