Fischl shares Katz's commitment to large scale figurative painting grounded in everyday American life and social observation. Both artists work with bold compositions and a cool detachment that gives their scenes a cinematic and theatrical quality.

Hockney employs similarly flat graphic forms, bright color palettes, and a crisp elegant line in his figurative and portrait work. Both painters share an interest in depicting leisure, social scenes, and the human figure with a clarity that references commercial and popular visual culture.

Thiebaud's work similarly bridges fine art and commercial graphic sensibility through bold outlines and clean simplified forms. Like Katz he was associated with neither pure abstraction nor traditional realism but carved out a distinctly American figurative mode.