Anne Blaich
About my art
and about me
Art lets you put your life on pause.
You stop doing what you just did and focus on the artwork.
With my pictures I want to offer you a short trip, a trip to a place, a situation or maybe a memory –
to laugh, cry, think about.
Why do I want to offer a pause?
Stress full situations are everywhere - challenging jobs, traffic jams, climate changes, wars… Often, we are unable to avoid or control them.
How resilient we are to stress is a very complex mechanism, depending on factors like genes, sex, age and environment. Most of them we can’t regulate.
But the good news is there is one important factor which we can control.
It’s stress coping.
Scientists showed that a stressful situation is much easier to manage for people with good coping strategies.
So, let’s do some coping. Let’s enjoy art and relax
Why do I know so much about stress coping?
I am not just an artist I am also a scientist.
When I left school, I first studied biology. Ten years, a Dr. title
and a couple scientific publications later, I started my art career.
Today I combining science and art.
What technique do I use?
I use image elements
that have been proven to cause the viewer
to spend more time with the image - more time to put your life on pause.
What elements are these?
Aesthetics and the golden ratio:
When you look at them, they stimulate areas of the brain that make you happy.
Points:
They do not have direction and
encourage independent interpretation.
The combination of manual drawing and digital background:
This creates a subtle tension and fascination that let people spend more time with a picture.
Color selection is also an important element:
For example, our brains react much more intensely to red than to other colors.
Portraits:
Portaits take advantage of the fact that humans are very empathetic.
We empathize and our interest is piqued. We focus on the picture.
I use these and other scientific findings in my pictures
to create art.