Donor
Ronald Machtley
Preview
Description
Acrylic on wood, 48" x 48". Artist: Miriam Fried (b. 1916, Patterson, NJ - d. July 4, 2014, Provincetown, MA).
Keywords
abstract; painting; Miriam Fried
Ronald Machtley
Acrylic on wood, 48" x 48". Artist: Miriam Fried (b. 1916, Patterson, NJ - d. July 4, 2014, Provincetown, MA).
abstract; painting; Miriam Fried
Comments
Bryant University owns 3 abstract paintings by Miriam Fried: Firmament, Holiday, and The Muse. Ms. Fried is a Provincetown, Massachusetts artist who has studied with various teachers, including Helen van Wyck, Robert Natkin, and Stephen Lo Monaco. Her work is in many collections in New York, New Jersey, and in many corporate collections in the Boston area, including the Boston Stock Exchange.
Miriam, whose work was abstract, explained abstraction as, "A painting is called abstract when it is impossible to recognize in it the slightest trace of that objective reality which makes up the normal background of our everyday existence. In other words, a painting is abstract when the absence of any other form of sensible reality compels us to regard it purely as painting and as nothing else, and to judge it according to values that have nothing to do with representation or with the imitation or reproduction of some other thing. Then the work has nothing to convey to us except the pure elements of composition and color."