As a founding member of the CoBrA movement alongside Appel, Jorn created figurative works with similarly explosive brushwork, raw expressionist energy, and intensely vibrant color application that distorts the human form in comparable ways.

Dubuffet shared Appel's commitment to raw, gestural figuration and thick impasto oil painting, frequently depicting the human figure with bold irreverent strokes that reject academic idealization in favor of primal expressive force.

De Kooning's celebrated series of reclining and standing female figures executed in oil on canvas share the same frenetic brushwork, vibrant palette, and tension between figuration and abstraction that defines Appel's approach to the nude.