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Patteef mixes fine arts with pop culture. All collages are made under 5 minutes, on an iPhone.

08/11/2025

The Farewell
James Tissot

James Tissot was obsessed with the choreography of small, private moments in public space. Not grand myth. Not gods. Not legends. Just the modern city — and the quiet, human theatre inside it. A kiss before the train leaves. Two lives caught in a fraction of a second, before distance starts. Victorian society was strict, coded, formal. But Tissot was always looking for these little cracks where intimacy leaked through. The umbrella hanging there like a paused gesture. The hand gripping the brass rail. The weight of fabric. The weight of time. Every tiny detail is a timestamp. A love scene squeezed between timetables and iron wheels.

I like how Tissot turns something ordinary — people travelling — into something emotional and cinematic. Almost like a still from a film that doesn’t exist yet. A film your brain completes by itself. Because everybody knows the feeling of a goodbye you don’t want to end.

07/11/2025

René Magritte - The Enchanted Domain [1953]

This work is the second in the eponymous series of eight canvases that Magritte painted to fulfil a commission from Gustave Nellens, owner of the seaside Casino Communal at Knokke-Le-Zoute in Belgium. He proposed this idea to Magritte in early 1953. Magritte had already created in 1951 a circular painting of clouds to adorn the ceiling of the small Théâtre des Galeries in Brussels. The commission at Knokke would be far grander in every way; Magritte’s designs would be replicated by professional painters as a panoramic mural on a monumental scale, which would indeed prove to be the largest of his career, including those he subsequently executed for the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi in 1956, and the Palais du Congrès, Brussels, in 1963.

04/11/2025

Mujer desnuda acostada
Joaquín Sorolla

Sorolla is mostly remembered for beach light. Children running across the white sand. Linen shirts glowing like milk in the sun. But he was also a master of interior quiet — moments where time collapses and the eye slows down. This painting is one of those moments. A body at rest, dissolving into fabric, turning into colour. Look how the sheets become pure brushstrokes, almost abstract, almost dream. Sorolla believed light revealed the soul more than line did. You see that here: the figure becomes a landscape. Skin becomes paint. Paint becomes atmosphere. There’s something cinematic in this stillness. Like the camera was forgotten on, recording someone simply existing. No performance. No pose. Just the weight of a human being, held by a bed, held by a room, held by this exact light. I love how painting can do that. Make an ordinary moment eternal.

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29/10/2025

Portrait of a Young Man
by Pietro Rotari

Old light, new flame.
The quiet of a painted face meeting the warmth of a borrowed moment.

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29/10/2025

Gypsies. The Nap
by Rosario de Velasco

From Franco’s Spain to a tattooed timeline.
Same stillness, different skin.

What would she post if she lived now?

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27/10/2025

The Virgin and Child with Saint John and an Angel
by Sandro Botticelli

Botticelli’s calm meets the raw edge of now.
Sacred poses, inked skin — devotion reimagined in pixels and light.

How much has really changed in the way we worship?

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27/10/2025

Mona & Vincent

She finally left the Louvre, he finally left the attic.
Now they take mirror selfies instead of self-portraits.
Different medium, same obsession with the gaze.

Who’s painting who this time?

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24/10/2025

Downward cat

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23/10/2025

G*ab ’em by the

L’Aurore
Jules Joseph Lefebvre

Aurōra is the Latin word for dawn, and the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and Latin poetry. Aurōra renews herself every morning and flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the Sun. She has two siblings, a brother (Sol, the Sun) and a sister (Luna, the Moon).

18/10/2025

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17/10/2025

The Judgement of Paris
Alessandro Turchi, 17th C

The Judgement of Paris is a story from Greek mythology, which was one of the events that led up to the Trojan War and in later versions of the story to the foundation of Rome.

He held the apple that could change everything.

Three goddesses, one choice.

He chose beauty — and unknowingly chose destruction.

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16/10/2025

Gazing out the Window
by Christian Meyer Ross

Old-world flirtation meets modern exposure.
Two centuries apart, still caught in the same gaze.

Who’s really watching who?

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Antwerp
2050

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