🌟 ‘When a painting chooses you: the invisible power of art that speaks to your soul’
Have you ever felt a chill down your spine in front of a painting? That moment when the colours envelop you, the subject mesmerises you and time seems to stand still? It is no accident. It is the artistic thunderbolt, a magical encounter between your psyche and the soul of a work.
Here is how to turn this experience into an indelible connection with art, using strategies that not everyone knows.
The mystery of “love at first sight”: why some works choose you
It is not you who chooses a painting. It is the work that calls you, through its own secret language made up of:
Colours that resonate with your memories (the blue of the ocean you saw as a child, the red of the passion you dare not confess).
Subjects that embody your hidden desires (a surreal landscape for those who dream of escapism, a portrait for those who seek truth).
Textures that caress your skin without touching it (look how the light plays on that brushstroke… does that ring a bell?).
The science behind falling in love.
According to neuroscience, when a work wins you over:
The ventral striatum (the same area that reacts to rewards and cuddles) lights up.
Dopamine floods the brain, creating a positive addiction (you’d like to take that painting home, wouldn’t you?
Mirror neurons make you experience the work as physical (“I feel those flowers growing inside me”).
Frida Kahlo knew this well: her self-portraits are tattoos of the soul, where pain becomes beauty.
‘Why that painting?’
The choice of a work is often a story that fires the imagination: ‘It was like meeting a stranger at the station. His eyes (the colours) speak to our soul without the need for words. his face (the lines) bears similar signs to mine… and in that moment, I knew he had to come with me.
“Look again at that painting that dazzled you.
That spot of green at the bottom left?
It is the exact tone of your eyes when you laugh.
Coincidence? Or is it art calling to you?”
