Stylistic features

Studin opposes his plunging into pain, passion and inner sensation to the epic Romanticism of Meštrović which is a decision of his sculptor’s stylistic expression from the beginning of the 20th century, although the form of Meštrović follows him even 20 twenty years later. The rustic style in Studin exists equally with the academic one, what was respectfully noticed by the art historian Herbert Read in his preface to well-known Studin’s exhibition in London in 1953.
He achieves the archaic strength and intimate atmosphere of his birth hearth with his lyric structures of purified forms (it reminds us of “naive” art). This is where we find justification for told assessment of his work in the words of famous reviewer from London Keneton Parkens: Studin is the original national strength expressed in the simplest plastic form.