Basquiat worked in the same New York street art milieu as Haring, creating large scale black ink drawings packed with raw figurative imagery, mythological references, and urgent gestural mark making that bridges ancient symbolism with contemporary urban culture.

A close contemporary of Haring from the same downtown New York scene, Scharf created boldly outlined cartoonish figures and multi limbed creatures with a similarly playful yet primal energy rooted in pop culture and street art vocabulary.

Penck developed a visual language of bold black ink stick figures and symbolic creatures drawn from prehistoric and mythological archetypes, sharing Harings interest in primal figurative forms executed with direct gestural strokes on large format surfaces.