Caziel adhered to the 'Ecole de Paris' years prior to settling in Paris in 1937. He attended the Warsaw Academy of FineArts, 1931-36, where the influence of French Post-Impressionist painting was omnipresent. Revered masters amongst the students and significant influences on Caziel's early development as a painter included Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse.
Many works of this period show a clear Cézannesque approach in technique and colouring, whereas his Fauve designs for the ballet are in the spirit of La Danse, painted by Matisse in 1910. The rhythmical succession of floating nudes expresses feelings of emotional liberations and hedonism, and evoke pagan rites as celebrated in Igor Stravinsky's ballet 'Rite of Spring' (1910-1913), as well as religious Apocalyptic beliefs as illustrated in the 11th century manuscript of Saint-Sever Beatus. In a few works, Caziel united the Post-Impressionist vocabulary with imagery and stylistic elements borrowed from Polish folklore.
