Appel shared Dubuffet's raw expressive figuration and interest in childlike mark making, creating densely textured acrylic works featuring boldly distorted figures within energetic compositional environments that reject academic refinement in favor of visceral directness.

Jorn was a fellow founder of the CoBrA movement and created similarly rough hewn figurative works with thick expressive surfaces, populating his painted landscapes with distorted human forms that draw on folk art traditions and unfiltered emotional intensity much like Dubuffet's Art Brut philosophy.

Penck populated his canvases with schematic stick like figures set within sparse landscape arrangements, sharing Dubuffet's deliberate rejection of conventional figuration in favor of primal mark making systems that evoke prehistoric cave painting and raw unmediated human presence.