Text: 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.
Entailment: He was a painter whose work was exuberant and buoyant.
Contradiction: He was not ever influenced by other art.