His striking work "The Third of May, 1808" is clearly influenced by the renowned Goya painting of the same title.
Like a Goya painting, only the action in the centre mattered; the rest was blurred peripheral belonging to another place and another time.
It is the bright, over-ripe face of a Goya painting.
Forman had not seen any of her work but thought she looked like a Goya painting, so he requested a meeting.
Imagining a time reversal, his life becomes entwined with the characters in a Goya painting.
Many of the film's tableaus are staged re-creations of well-known Goya paintings.
New York has become the Goya painting of a crazed god stuffing children into his mouth.
The show begins quietly enough with familiar - and, so far, authentic - Goya paintings, portraits all.
Several years earlier, he had passed off a $60,000 Goya painting as a million-dollar bequest to the Soviet Union.
Another song "'Duel with Cudgels", eight minutes and thirty seconds, takes its title from a Goya painting.