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Here is a slide which is a little grainy, but in focus.  The color is not as fresh as the actual painting
(the slide is a tad darker than the painting).   This slide is extremely close to the painting.

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                                                                                           Above is an excellent slide (yet, not as detailed as the first).  
                                                        The painting is a detailed combination of these two images regarding color and intensity.








            




                            
          

The above three images are from the same slide.  There are two black dots on the slide which is lint (in the middle-left portion of the flag).  This slide was taken with recessed florescent lighting and appropriate slide film.  The painting is at an angle to avoid a glare.   I used the school's tripod.  It was stretched perfectly (used straight wood which did not warp) before rolling the canvas and storing it.  This slide shows a blurry representation of my "signature" in dark blue which (if I remember correctly) I am almost positive has"A.Allegrone" printed (not in cursive and painted) at an upwards angle (towards the upper right reading left to right) on the bottom right corner of the painting.   My other images are from scanned slides of this painting which have all been masked with silver tape (therefore cropped for  relatively "acceptable" presentation purposes).  The colors and density is as close to the painting as possible.  I can tell these colors are accurate from the small paintings in the background which I have upstairs here.

                    I added a little yellow and magenta to the same slide below to view the painting under slightly different  lighting conditions:


                                      

                                                                    

 

          

            Andrea Allegrone. The Search: JFK Jr., Carolyn, and Her Sister. 5.5'x8'x2." Acrylic and Oil (not mixed: adjacent). 1999. The flag is painted with oil and the remaining water is painted with stained acrylic layers. It has two finishing coats of Polycrylic and the sides of the painting are painted. The digital initials are not on the actual painting.  This painting is stored out-of-state and it took me one month to restore (slightly retouch-mostly the sides from moving), take the staples off, “de-stretch” the canvas, and roll over 30 paintings (this is why the exact printed name or printed initials is not an issue for me). This painting has been de-stretched (taken off the wooden stretchers and rolled carefully around a smooth 6" pipe (diameter). Thick plastic-drop cloth is rolled around the painting and it is stored in a cool, dry place. My website is: AndreaAllegrone.com The Search can be viewed at: The Search and more of The Search (scroll down).

 

            The Search… was and is a tribute painting. I remember watching CNN during the search. In my opinion, the search represents hope and draws attention to extremely popular people who had "public" lives and had to deal with this exposure daily. This attention is not meant for everyone. This is a favorite painting of mine and of onlookers. I actually had a car accident before I had finished this painting. I had almost painted all of the stars on the flag, when I was injured in a total car wreck. After weeks had passed I had almost forgotten about placing all of the stars on the painting since I was a full-time student with two jobs, no life, and no sleep (and the accident was not even my fault-it was unavoidable). (Yet, I was extremely excited and “happy” to be painting in the large studio facility.) I had actually taken slides and sent them out all over New York, Boston, etc. with no intention of using the painting as an insult and didn’t know why I was being shunned until later. Finally, I realized I had not placed all of the stars on the painting yet (as originally intended) and then I finished it (actually in 2000 (with the addition of a couple of stars)). It is a commemorative painting which classically evokes the “human condition.” In style it is neither Pop, abstract, nor representational.

 

            Now, money does not grow from trees and sometimes holding a job which allows for a physical medical condition and “call-in” time is necessary.  I had a condition for over fourteen years which was ignored by at least three specialists in the field.  “You’ll grow out of it” or it is quite “normal,” the costly “specialists” would insist.   I even had a gallery call a surgery “elective” and unnecessary.    It was not elective in order to function or keep any type of job at all.  If only the gallery could have seen me overdosed on pain killers and alcohol vomiting in an emergency room, they would not have mocked the situation.   Excruciating monthly pain with ovarian ruptured lesions/cysts was “normal.”  It had gone too far.  I remember spending at least two Christmas holidays in bed unable to move from paralyzing pain.  So, whose fault is it when about fifteen years pass by being “invisible?”  The responsible approach is to pay the bills.  One is born an artist.  If society does not accept that, it is out of ignorance and jealousy or fear of not understanding creativity.