Brown creates figurative oil paintings with expressive, gestural brushwork depicting nude figures in intimate settings, sharing the same emotional depth and painterly texture found in this piece. Her work similarly bridges classical figure painting with contemporary sensibility and psychological atmosphere.

Saville is renowned for her large scale figurative oil paintings of nude figures rendered with thick, expressive paint application that conveys intense emotional and physical presence. Her contemporary reexamination of classical nude subjects closely parallels the approach seen in this blue monochromatic figure study.

Wiley consistently updates classical figurative painting conventions with modern subjects and contemporary references, much as this work places a nude figure with a smartphone within a traditional reclining pose format. His rich color palettes and dialogue between historical painting traditions and present day life directly echo the intentions of this piece.