One of the most famous living painters today, David Hockney developed his work outside the realm of pop art, with a pictorial technique that has always remained alien to more characteristic American pop models. Picture Emphasizing Stillness presents a scene of imminent danger: a leopard jumps on two male figures. Between the predator and the figures, the title alerts the viewer to evidence that contradicts the appearance of the situation: a static painting with no action, in which the animal will never reach the men. The suggestion of movement, represented from right to left, in the opposite direction to the reading, reinforces the sensation of immobility, emphasizing the incongruity between the painted image and the reality of painting as a static medium.