Basquiat's figurative work shares Bradley's neo-primitivist rawness and gestural, unpolished mark-making when depicting the human form, particularly in his skull and bust compositions that oscillate between representation and abstraction with a similarly confrontational intimacy.

Baselitz applies a reductive, expressionistic approach to the human figure with loose gestural brushwork and a muted tonal range that closely mirrors Bradley's raw aesthetic and his interest in distilling figuration down to its most archetypal, primitive essentials.

Wool's reductive and stripped back mark-making sensibility, combined with a spare visual language that hovers between legibility and abstraction, parallels the gestural economy and raw contemporary primitivism found in Bradley's figure studies.