Orozco shared Tamayo's interest in bold expressive heads and figurative abstraction with intense emotional color, particularly in his use of deep reds and earthy tones to convey raw human form and modernist sensibility within a Mexican artistic tradition.

Dubuffet similarly incorporated sand and mixed materials into painted surfaces to create heavily textured compositions of abstracted head forms, sharing Tamayo's preoccupation with materiality and the expressive potential of rough impasto surfaces.

Tàpies built richly textured canvases using sand, pigment, and mixed media to create abstract figurative works with a similarly tactile and elemental surface quality, aligning closely with Tamayo's exploration of materiality and chromatic intensity in this piece.