Arthur Chartow beautiful landscape painting

Professional American artist Arthur Chartow got his education in High School of Music & Art, New York City in 1965 – 1968. Then he graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh in 1972 and Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI in 1974. Arthur Chartow is one of 89 artists featured in the new release Art Journey America Landscapes. Painting of Arthur Chartow is based on his sketches, photographs, memory and imagination and made in traditional technique – oil on canvas or pastel on paper.

Arthur Chartow gets the ideas for his paintings by traveling around, sometimes in his local neighborhood and sometimes hundreds or even thousands of miles from home. He takes lots of photographs and mostly works from them. But the artist states “I am not a Photorealist, so if the only thing people can see in a painting of mine is that it looks like a photograph, then I’ve failed. For me the photographic source is something to change, play with, add to, subtract from, translate, and transcend”.

Arthur Chartow has participated in numerous solo and group art exhibitions in galleries and museums of the USA since 1982. His photo realistic landscapes got many awards and recognition, they are in corporate, private and museum collections.

Arthur Chartow says “In Russia I discovered a number of fine landscape painters little-known outside of Russia, the most amazing of whom is Kuindzhi. A master of using color to express the emotional qualities of light in the landscape. Also loved Shishkin”.

Arthur Chartow beautiful landscape painting

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