Liu Xiaodong shares Zhang Xiaogang's commitment to oil on canvas figurative portraiture that examines Chinese identity and collective social experience with a realist yet emotionally charged aesthetic. His large scale paintings of ordinary Chinese figures carry the same sense of psychological weight and socio-political observation found in the Bloodline series.

Marlene Dumas creates expressive figurative oil paintings that use portraiture to explore identity, memory, and emotional vulnerability with a haunting and psychologically penetrating quality very similar to Zhang Xiaogang's muted family portraits. Her figures share the same unsettling stillness and use of color to suggest emotional rather than purely physical states.

Luc Tuymans creates oil on canvas figurative works with desaturated, eerily still portraits that probe historical trauma and collective memory in ways that closely echo Zhang Xiaogang's exploration of identity under political systems. Both artists use a restrained realist style to convey deep psychological and socio-historical tension through the human face.