{"product_id":"raindrops-keep-fallin-i","title":"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head I","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head I* moves into slate gray and stays there. Across a series that runs mostly saturated, Cronin lets one painting sit quiet. The form holds. The volume drops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe painting is the first of three Raindrops Cronin built together, in conversation with II and III. The relationship was the work. Gray as a decision, not a default.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e30\" x 38\" · Oil paint on board · 2022 · Signed verso\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout *Umbrellas on Brain*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Umbrellas on Brain* is a body of work Cronin painted over six months across 2021 and 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe series moves between scales. For the better part of three decades, 48\" x 48\" was Cronin's vocabulary, the scale he worked in almost exclusively. It is only in the last ten years that he has begun to play with other dimensions, and *Umbrellas on Brain* is one of the series where that range first opens up. The collection holds both the signature scale and its variations side by side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor six months, Cronin committed to a single subject. He went full in, moving the umbrella through palette after palette. The way he paints, a series is part observation, part practice, part response. Music in the studio, reading on the subject, immersion in what is around him. The painting absorbs all of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe surface is high-gloss Rust-Oleum enamel, poured thick, the brush moving paint that runs off it as he works. Industrial finish, human stroke. Two languages in the same painting, and the tension between them is what makes the work read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ryan Cronin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43910908182758,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2064\/9153\/files\/Raindrops_Keep_Fallin_On_My_Head_I_Ryan_Cronin.jpg?v=1779049183","url":"https:\/\/www.cronartusa.com\/products\/raindrops-keep-fallin-i","provider":"Ryan Cronin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}