Paul Cezanne was a pioneer of color theory, whose works inspired many generations of artists including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Cy Twombly, Robert Motherwell, Richard Diebenkorn and others.
He soaked up kinetic theory from artists like Jean Tinguely and Lucio Fontana and evolved the concept of the immateriality ofcolorpioneered by Yves Klein.