Braque directly built upon Cézanne's method of constructing form through modulated color patches and fractured planes, particularly in his landscapes and figure compositions that emphasize pictorial architecture over naturalistic representation. His work shares Cézanne's muted earthy palette, geometric simplification of nature, and the same tension between flatness and depth.

Denis shared Cézanne's preoccupation with bathers, garden and forest settings, and the decorative organization of color across a flat picture surface, often painting groups of figures in verdant outdoor spaces rendered with deliberate structural rhythm. His Post-Impressionist palette of blues and greens in botanical and figure compositions closely parallels Cézanne's approach to the same subjects.