Take the following as truth: His fat serpentine strokes and lacquer-smooth planes twisted around each other, arriving at exuberant new combinations that sometimes echoed his old friend Arshile Gorky as well as Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian, painters whose final work was similarly buoyant.
Then the following statement: "He was not ever influenced by other art." is true, false, or inconclusive?
Answer: False