{"id":2022,"date":"2011-05-11T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artcorner.com\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2011-05-11T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T06:47:00","slug":"art-is-the-new-aphrodisiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/art-is-the-new-aphrodisiac\/","title":{"rendered":"Art is the New Aphrodisiac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/lagrtfrpo1.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2048\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/monet-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"Claude Monet - La Grenouillere (The Frog Pond)\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/monet-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/monet.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Move over chocolate! Art is the new\u00a0aphrodisiac, as discovered in a recent study at the University College London. Professor Semir Zeki, a neurobiologist at the university, scanned volunteers&#8217; brains as they looked at a series of 28 paintings. The study found that viewing art releases dopamine into the orbito-frontal cortex of the\u00a0brain.\u00a0Dopamine is that chemical associated with feelings of love, contentment, and happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Of the artists surveyed, Botticelli and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/monrep.html\">Claude Monet<\/a> elicited the most blood flow to areas of the brain usually associated with romantic love and the release of dopamine. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/art\/8501024\/Viewing-art-gives-same-pleasure-as-being-in-love.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Telegraph<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The research suggests that art could be used to increase the welfare and mental health of the general public and should be protected from budget cutbacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/lagrtfrpo1.html\">Bathers at La Grenouillere<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/monrep.html\">Claude Monet<\/a> and\u00a0<em>The Birth of Venus<\/em> by Botticelli are two of the artworks used by researchers to study the effect of art on the brain. Simonetta Vespucci, the model for <em>The Birth of Venus<\/em>, was said to be the most beautiful woman of the 15th century! She was often a subject of Botticelli&#8217;s works. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/lagrtfrpo1.html\">Bathers at La Grenouillere<\/a> is but one of a series of paintings Claude Monet (and his fellow Impressionists, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/lagrtfrpo.html\">Renoir<\/a>) rendered of the famous &#8220;frog pond,&#8221; next in line perhaps to his water lily series.<\/p>\n<p>A trip to a local art museum or hanging a rendition of one of these famous works is a wonderful surprise for your beloved. Science proves it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over chocolate! Art is the new\u00a0aphrodisiac, as discovered in a recent study at the University College London. Professor Semir Zeki, a neurobiologist at the university, scanned volunteers&#8217; brains as they looked at a series of 28 paintings. The study found that viewing art releases dopamine into the orbito-frontal cortex of the\u00a0brain.\u00a0Dopamine is that chemical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[723,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-art-reflections"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Art is the New Aphrodisiac - ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/art-is-the-new-aphrodisiac\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Art is the New Aphrodisiac - ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Move over chocolate! 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