He may be better known, however, for his abstract works such as One Year the Milkweed.
In 1973, two works by this artist, Aerial Map and Mechanics of Flying, were discovered under 14 layers of paint at the Newark Airport; those works were part of his ten-section mural entitled Aviation. Works inspired by this artist's youth include a series of paintings inspired by his father's garden in Khorkum, Garden in Sochi, and two paintings based on a 1912 picture of himself and his mother, who died of starvation while fleeing soldiers. This creator of the Nighttime, Enigma, Nostalgia series also painted the Portrait of (*) Master Bill, which depicts his friend Willem de Kooning, as well as the aforementioned The Artist and His Mother. He may be better known, however, for his abstract works such as One Year the Milkweed. For 10 points, name this Abstract Expressionist who fled to America during the Armenian Genocide and painted The Liver is the Cock's Comb.
In 1973, two works by this artist, Aerial Map and Mechanics of Flying, were discovered under 14 layers of paint at the Newark Airport; those works were part of his ten-section mural entitled Aviation.
Arshile Gorky [accept Vostanik Adoyan]