Altamont is a musical piece filled with mystery by Aphrodite’s Child, part of an album marked by a highly liberal and unconventional spirit. It reflects the rage and desire to change everything that characterized the Hippie movement, drawing inspiration from the Apocalypse according to Saint John, with the belief that everything is changing and that we want to change it for the better—yet that is not the direction in which everything is truly heading.

Here, the pictorial style shifts toward a more personal search. In this case, the cool tones of both figure and background not only reinforce the concept, but merge them into a single, unified entity.