Carlos Cruz-Diez, one of the most prominent Latin American artists of the postwar era, whose immersive paintings and installations set color in motion, stirring overpowering bodily sensations in the viewer, died on July 27 in Paris, his adopted city. He was 95.

His family announced his death on his website.

Mr. Cruz-Diez, who was from Venezuela, where he was addressed as “maestro” and where a museum in Caracas bears his name, achieved international renown early in his career in 1960s Paris.

He was celebrated in major North American museum shows, including a 2011 retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and a 1993 survey of Latin American art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.