Cezanne' s art inspired the next generation of artists, twentieth-century modernist creators of abstract art  While most experts rank Cezanne as an early modernist, a small few reject this idea
Fran^oise Cachin, for example, bluntly states that such an ascription is overplayed,  and says that Cezanne' s work is too often observed from a modern point of view
Cezanne's work helped to develop modernism.