Turned on to surrealism in 1939, he began painting such works as How My Mother's Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life, The Diary of a Seducer, and The Liver Is the Cock's Comb.
After emigrating to the United States this man passed himself off as a successful Russian portraitist who had studied in Paris and experimented with Automatism, enabling him to get a job from 1926 to 1931 teaching at the Grand Central School of Art. Turned on to surrealism in 1939, he began painting such works as How My Mother's Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life, The Diary of a Seducer, and The Liver Is the Cock's Comb. FTP name this painter of such works as The Betrothal originally named Vosdanik Adoian, whose name comes from the lead character of the Iliad and his favorite novelist, who hanged himself after an automobile accident in 1948 cost him painting hand.
After emigrating to the United States this man passed himself off as a successful Russian portraitist who had studied in Paris and experimented with Automatism, enabling him to get a job from 1926 to 1931 teaching at the Grand Central School of Art.
Arshile Gorky