Nara similarly employs expressive figurative oil painting with a contemporary East Asian sensibility, using bold simplified forms and emotionally charged characters that share the direct confrontational energy found in Liu Ye's work.

As a fellow pioneer of Chinese contemporary figurative painting, Fang Lijun shares Liu Ye's expressive approach to the human figure and his engagement with psychological and emotional states within the context of post 1990s Chinese art.

Rauch works in oil on canvas with expressive figuration that blends psychological tension and gestural mark making, sharing with Liu Ye a commitment to contemporary figurative painting that carries strong emotional and narrative undercurrents.