ALBERT CHIARANDINI

Portrait Painter & Landscape Painter

O.S.A., F.I.A.L.

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SOLD
"Pink Roses"
20 x 16
Oil
$1,600.00
 

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"The Docks"
16 x 20
Oil
$1,800.00

  

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"Colours of Autumn"
33 x 39
Oil
$7,200.00

  

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"Venetian Colours"
14 x 12
Oil
$1,080.00

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BIOGRAPHY

MEMBER

EXHIBITIONS

PROFESSIONAL COMMISSIONS AND POSITIONS

IDENTIFICATION OF MEMBERSHIPS AND EXHIBITS

1938

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          Letter from Luciano Pavarotti (Modena, Italy) regarding the Canadian Landscape

1993

          January 15th. "Incontri" Personal Television interview and showing of paintings

1996        

          Two paintings acquired by the national Archives of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario

          Exhibit - Ontario Society of Artists.  Portrait reproduced in catalogue

 2000/2001

          OSA Members Exhibition "Into Body - Varley Art Gallery of Markham

  2004         

           Exhibited "Celebrating the Landscape" Kipling Gallery, Woodbridge, Ontario

           December 6th. unveiling of Smith/Chiarandini, 116 paintings permanent Collection, Georgina Gallery, Sutton

           Item Georgina Advocate and reproductions December 16th "Priceless Collection puts Gallery on Map"

 2005

           August 10 - September 4 Smith/Chiarandini Collection showing in its entirety as part of the AGO project (Group of Seven
           85 year Joint project) Georgina Arts Centre & Gallery, Sutton  

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

PERSONAL HISTORY


Albert Chiarandini was born in the city of Udine, in the northern part of Italy. As a little boy, he passionately loved to scribble, draw and dedicated his time copying religious subjects. Having never been taught anatomy, the religious figures he drew and painted as a child had a strange hunchbacked look. These poor holy figures were rendered with an old shaving brush of his father's and powdered colours mixed with water, then applied to the plaster walls of the woodshed out back where his father allowed him to paint. Obviously not an easy start for this determined and dedicated little artist.
 

Umberto (Albert) taught himself well, for at the age of fifteen he was accepted to apprentice at the workshop of the well-known sculptor, L.Moro of Udine.
 

In 1932, he arrived in Canada, Determined to continue with his studies, he applied to the Ontario College of Art. With little delay he was enrolled and studied primarily under the guidance of F. Challenger and John Alfsen.
 

In 1938, his first portrait was accepted into the Ontario Society of Artists Annual Show.
Always having the desire to portray people in their environment, observing their instincts, mannerisms and lifestyles, Albert painted several large series of portraits depicting the diversity of the human condition. Albert would search and recruit models from Allan Gardens in Toronto and from the streets surrounding the Salvation Army. Here he discovered derelicts of many colours, odours and varied mental states.
 

In 1967, Albert began painting in the region of Yorkville Avenue (Toronto). With paint and canvas, Albert proceeded to capture in portraits, the faces of political revolution and the dynamic change in Yorkville. Here for Albert Chiarandini, was a different attitude to record and portray. A new approach for Albert to capture, of this driven younger generation full of idealism, equality and peace. These portraits of young hippies, transient and searching are truly beautiful. Through his work Chiarandini succeeds in his mission to capture the diversity and integrity of the human spirit.
 

These paintings immediately gained Albert Chiarandini recognition as a serious professional and extremely gifted portrait painter. Soon to follow would be a string of portraiture commissions, including many faces still famous today in the history and cultural fabric of Toronto and Ontario.
 

Between portrait sessions Alberto Chiarandini kept painting, diversifying his talent and applying it to the realm of landscape painting scenes of rural life. Sharing in this pursuit of landscapes he had some truly gifted company. He was friends with Donald Fraser, shared exhibition space with Carmicheal, A.J. Casson, Lawren Harris, Joachim Gauthier, A.Y. Jackson, and others in O.S.A. shows.
 

Albert Chiarandini said that landscapes allowed him to explore the profound beauty of nature, echoes of light and the smell of the countryside. Little could Albert have foreseen a future side effect of his work. From our perspective today, Albert Chiarandini has created, and continues to create a unique and powerful gift of historical documentation and beauty.
 

Chiarandini has paintings of fields that now hold subdivisions in their soil, vistas with immense skies flowing freely that today we have filled with high-rises and industrial developments and a record we should appreciate of what Richmond Hill, Aurora, Newmarket, and other well known and once rural neighborhoods once were, not to mention a collection of beautiful and powerful paintings.
 

Albert Chiarandini is in his eighties now, he continues to paint and is still passionate about the power of art and the beauty in our Canadian landscapes. Albert is truly a reminder of a revolutionary era in Canadian painting and an established voice in his own right, for Canadian art.
 

© 2002 Albert Chiarandini
 

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