Basquiat similarly combined spray paint and acrylic on canvas with bold gestural mark-making, bridging abstraction and figuration through raw expressive energy and urban visual language that closely mirrors Bernhardt's approach in this work.

Brown's large scale canvases share a similar tension between abstraction and figuration through dynamic gestural brushwork and expressive surface treatment, echoing the bold contemporary painterly qualities visible in this piece.

Martinez employs acrylic and spray paint in bold abstract compositions that fuse gestural spontaneity with urban energy, making his practice one of the closest contemporary parallels to the technique and expressive quality demonstrated in this Bernhardt work.