His work can be regarded as an expression of a new academism in art. It was designed by Svetislav Putnik, in the style of Academism. According to critics he works in a contemporary art style at the interface of academism. Three years later, the Peredvizhniki movement of realist painters rebelled against the Academism. He was irritated by Academism and disliked the Baroque form fashionable before the war.