The article is called, “Six Ways that Artists Hack Your Brain,” and it’s a really interesting combination of Neurology and Aesthetics (called “Neuroaesthetics!”):
Since humankind first put brush to canvas, artists have played with the mind and the senses to create sublime atmospheres and odd impressions. It is only recently, with a blossoming understanding of the way the brain deconstructs images, that neuroscientists and psychologists have finally begun to understand how these tricks work.
Here we take you on a grand tour of the burgeoning field of neuroaesthetics. You’ll find out how Claude Monet bypasses your consciousness and plugs straight into your emotions, how Salvador Dali triggers neural conflicts and how Renaissance art and trompe l’oeil fool us into believing the impossible. And we turn the spotlight on the artist’s mind, revealing how Wassily Kandinsky drew on his synaesthesia to produce some of the most celebrated artworks of the 20th century.
Check out the whole thing here.
The Harold Lounge 
Also, on the subject of the field of neuroaesthetics more generally, here is good review article by Anjan Chatterjee at UPenn: http://ccn.upenn.edu/~chatterjee/anjan_pdfs/ChatterjeeNeuroaestheticsJOCN.pdf
My students in Philosophy of Art are having some fun with it! 🙂