Schnabel's neo-expressionist portraits feature heavily impastoed surfaces, bold saturated color fields, and a similar tension between figurative recognition and painterly abstraction that directly parallels DeCunto's Marilyn. Both artists transform cultural and celebrity subjects through thick gestural brushwork and dramatic surface texture.

Clemente creates richly layered figurative portraits using intense jewel toned palettes of reds, yellows, and purples applied with expressive impasto, closely mirroring DeCunto's treatment of Marilyn. His approach of merging recognizable celebrity and mythic figures with abstract expressionist paint handling reflects the same contemporary meditation on image and identity.

Condo's figurative paintings fuse pop cultural iconography with heavily textured abstract expressionist brushwork and bold chromatic contrasts, creating the same dynamic interplay between recognizable portraiture and raw painterly abstraction seen in DeCunto's Marilyn. His thickly built surfaces and metallic highlights echo DeCunto's impastoed gold accents and vibrant layering.