Neo Rauch blends historical European painting traditions with contemporary narrative in a similarly self conscious dialogue between past and present art movements, using acrylic and oil to create works that reference classical techniques while maintaining a distinctly modern sensibility.

Wiley directly engages with Baroque compositional traditions and Old Master painting styles by recontextualizing them within a contemporary framework, much like Liu Ye's interrogation of Baroque conventions through a modern lens.

Currin revives and critically reexamines Old Master and Baroque figurative painting conventions through contemporary acrylic and oil works, creating a self aware tension between historical artistic traditions and present day visual culture that mirrors Liu Ye's conceptual approach.