Richter similarly uses oil painting combined with photographic and collage elements to explore fragmented memory, identity, and representation, creating works that blur the boundary between the real and the reproduced in a post-modern context.

Polke's mixed media canvases combine oil paint with collaged imagery and conceptual layering to question representation and cultural identity, sharing Zhang's interest in visual fragmentation and the psychological weight of collective memory.

Xu Bing creates conceptually driven mixed media works that interrogate Chinese cultural identity and the construction of meaning through layered visual and textual systems, mirroring Zhang's post-modern fragmentation and engagement with contemporary Chinese experience.