Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) is a huge influence on me, I didn't actually do any research on him til later but I knew about him as a teenager when my art first began to flourish. I didn't know then that he was a painter/graphic artist in the early time of the abstract art movement and orphic cubism. He started out in realism and the works I was familiar with were the two on top. It all makes sense now :).