Celebrate The Healing Power of ART: Bobbie Friedman's "Ability Series"

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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Bobbie Friedman's "Ability Series"

Her Colorful Art Has The Power to Heal

Bobbie Friedman, www.BobbieFriedman.com, is a self-taught artist whose exuberant and colorful personality exudes the full spectrum of the rainbow. She uses color, form and movement with unbridled spontaneity and intense emotional expression.

Her BS degree in Physical Therapy from Boston University, her vast experience working with her patients and her significant knowledge of anatomy have infused her art with human characteristics which she takes to an entirely new level of creative imagination.

Although the brightly hued images encourage viewers to laugh at their own quirky human traits, we also discover Bobbie, the social conscious activist. She is compelled by the desire to project strong messages in her work and build awareness about the ills of our society.

Shown here is her painting "#11" from her "Ability Series".Artwork is copyright protected by the artist. All rights reserved. Do not copy image without the artist's permission.

About Bobbie Friedman's "Ability Series"

We know that art has the power to heal. It transcends age, cultures, ethnic backgrounds and genders. Bobbie Friedman's direct, colorful and dynamic paintings can be understood by everyone.

Her important series speaks to the social issues in our society which affects all individuals and families who have experienced some form of disability or health related challenge.

In “The Ability Series,” we see Bobbie as an artist imbued with a strong sense of compassion and advocacy. In these paintings she portrays figures with physical disabilities engaged in sports activities. Her purpose is to build awareness about the abilities rather than the disabilities of the physically challenged by sharing her paintings and widely distributing her prints.

Shown here is Bobbie Friedman's painting "Therapeutic Horseback Riding" from her Ability Series. Artwork is copyright protected by the artist. All rights reserved. Do not copy image without the artist's permission.

Bobbie states, “There are so many 'Wounded Warriors' returning home with disabilities. It would be a healing process for the families to understand that their family member can again participate in sports that the families enjoyed previous to a parent being injured. This speaks to returning normality to the family unit.

Children with physical disabilities will also connect with the simplicity and uplifting nature of 'The Ability Series' images."

To learn more about Bobbie Friedman and to view her art work visit http://www.BobbieFriedman.com

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Words of Inspiration

"Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery."
~ Florence Nightingale

"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"
~ Ivor Stravinsky

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
~ Michelangelo

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of every day life."
~ Pablo Picasso

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing." ~ Marc Chagall

"Art is not a thing but a Moving Spirit." ~ George Innes

"'Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea."
~ Ben Nicholson

"Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies."
~ Paul Klee

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." ~ Marc Chagall

"A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis." ~ Hans Hofmann

"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene." ~ Grandma Moses

"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see." ~ Paul Klee

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity." ~ Julia Cameron

"Creativity advances through works that bring about the artists' continuing self-creating." ~ Garry Wills

"Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way."
~ Albert Einstein

"Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in bed for both." ~ Eric Maisel

"It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves." ~ Oscar Wilde

"Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference."
~ Josef Albers

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." ~ Frances Bacon

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." ~ Andre Gide

"An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art."
~ Lee Simonson

Inspiring Quotes by Artists

The Universe, this planet and every plant and animal life force upon it survives on one overriding principle - the 'CREATIVE' principle. Human artistic endeavour is Nature's highest form of this principle. It is always in direct contrast to human sickness and destruction. Our physical,intellectual and spiritual progress is founded on this fact. If we do not create - we suffer and die!
~ Keith Morant

"My Art work is inspired by giving a voice to children who have been abused that do not have a voice. The art I do addresses the silence around sexual abuse that allows the perpetrator to continue. I also believe that the artist and the viewer enter into a mutual healing process as the art is made and looked at. Art is able to contravene our belief system and hit us in our emotions with a visceral reaction. This reaction can then affect the individuals thoughts and awareness which can then change societal norms. Silence is not golden."
~ Linda Litteral

"My creativity centres mostly around seeing/feeling/exploring the tension, the power and the passion in and between firmness and dissolution, structure and creative chaos, between immobility and movement, lightness and weight. To feel the challenge in the visualization, the watching and a wish to see behind, beyond the artistic expression. I think it is about challenging your visualization, re-evaluing, overthrowing, setting the room into rotation and seeing if something new appears and allowing the artistic expression to work outside its known context."
~ Gunilla Lofgren

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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Bobbie Friedman's "Ability Series"

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