Bacon similarly explored religious and spiritual portraiture through bold experimental techniques, painting distorted figurative subjects including Pope Innocent X that share the same intense psychological and sacred tension found in this depiction of Saint Jean.

Klein combined spiritual and religious themes with radical material experimentation, pushing painting beyond traditional substrates just as Dalí used lenticular plastic, and both artists pursued transcendent metaphysical content through bold mid century modern approaches.

Vasarely embraced optical and lenticular plastic surfaces as artistic substrates during the same mid century period, creating works that exploited the visual trickery of modern industrial materials in a way that closely parallels Dalí's choice of lenticular plastic for this portrait.