Burri similarly burned and scorched materials including burlap, plastic, and wood to create textured abstract surfaces where destruction becomes a generative artistic act, directly paralleling Klein's use of fire and burnt cardboard as expressive mediums.

Rothko shared Klein's belief in color as a transcendent and immersive force capable of evoking deep emotional and spiritual states, producing large scale Color Field works that treat pigment as a vehicle for transformative experience.

Fontana, like Klein, pushed beyond traditional painting by physically altering his surfaces and exploring the materiality of the artwork itself, treating the canvas or support as an experimental field rather than a mere pictorial plane.