Thiebaud famously painted slices of cake and other desserts with a bold, graphic sensibility that mirrors Oldenburg's celebratory focus on everyday food objects. His use of thick, luscious paint to render confections shares the same playful and meticulous attention to humble subject matter seen in this piece.

Warhol elevated ordinary consumer goods and food items into iconic Pop Art imagery, directly paralleling Oldenburg's approach of treating a simple cake slice as worthy of serious artistic attention. Both artists shared a fascination with the visual language of American consumer culture rendered with deliberate craft.

Johns worked extensively in mixed media on paper combining charcoal, gouache and watercolor to examine commonplace objects with meticulous draftsmanship, echoing the precise technical execution Oldenburg demonstrates here. His interest in transforming banal subjects into compelling art objects aligns closely with the spirit and technique of this work.