Albert Chartier

See also: Chartier

Albert Chartier was born the June 16th 1912 with Montreal with the Quebec and is deceased the February 21st 2004 with 19:30 with Joliette, in the area of Lanaudière at the 91 years age.

Wire of Joseph Chartier, a sales representative which, after having lived in the United States, worked for the company Lowney' S , Albert Chartier inherited his father an innate practical direction for the businesses and a control of English who allowed him to become a bedeist of international gauge. Privileged by a bilingual family circle, it decided to perfect its English while being registered with the Montreal High School because, at the end of the years 1920, English constituted an essential tool for any young person who dreamed to leave the utter destitution which touched many Canadian hearths then. After its secondary studies, it carried out a test in the offices of an insurance company to discover, after only one day, that the clerical work was not made for him.

Charles Maillard, director of the School of the fine arts of Montreal, one was accustomed of the house Chartier and he encouraged the young Albert to continue studies in arts. At the beginning of its courses, Chartier appreciated the rigor and the perfectionism of its Masters because they answered its waitings very well. But, very quickly, he discovered that the rather traditional medium of the fine arts was not appropriate to him at all. In this particular universe, the illustration and the cartoon were perceived like popular forms of art, without much artistic value. With about fifteen years of the total Refusal , which was going seriously to shake the artistic scene and to call in question many concepts, the medium of the fine arts remained largely preserving and Chartier put up with it badly. Its leaning for the illustration already being felt, it deplored that one does not even make mention in his courses of certain modern applications of artistic techniques applied to the representational art which interested it personally.

At the end of 1935, with a scenario of the journalist Rene Boivin, Chartier obtained its first professional contract with its first cartoon, Bouboule , which appeared in the Fatherland until March 1937.

In 1940, Chartier left Quebec for New York. There, he worked for two large publishers, the Columbia Comic Corporation and Big Top Comic . After the attacks of Pearl Harbor, the United States entered the world war and, as the renewal of its work permit could force it to enlist in the American army, Chartier decided to return to the country, where the offers were not made wait. A first contract came from the Office of Information in time of war ( Wartime Information Board ) to Ottawa for which it carried out cartoons and of the panel gags in the governmental publications diffused to distract the soldiers.

In 1943, a cousin proposed in Chartier to introduce to the Bulletin farmers as illustrator. Was urged it then to illustrate the tales of Gabrielle Roy, as well as novels and news. In November of the same year, one made it possible to him to create a cartoon. To the image of the Saturday Evening Post in the United States, which was an enormous success thanks to the fidelity of its famous illustrator Norman Rockwell, the Bulletin of the farmers was going to be a similar success as from 1943 with the bedeist Chartier. Although the public more was restricted and identified with the rural world, the quality of its attachment to the character of Chartier was not less large. In 1991, at the time of the sale of the review at the house Maclean Hunter, it was a question of making disappear Onésime. But an outcry rose among the representatives of the sales and especially the public of the Bulletin , and the idea was quickly abandoned.

Taking as a starting point the rural environment targeted by the review, its own family and the social experiments of the picturesque corner of nonagricultural country of Saint-Jean-with-Matha, Chartier created with the Onésime series a chronicle of the life in the countryside and, in filigree, a history of the evolution of Québécois mentality and company.

It was one of the great figures of the Québécois data base.

It also carried out covers and caricatures for many magazines of the Quebec.

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