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"The versatility of Arso Ivanovich is apparent to anyone viewing only a handful of his works. In his continually evolving search for self-expression, Ivanovich's paintings have ranged from the thick textured oils of his expressionist figures and postimpressionistic landscapes, to the flowing transparency of his frozen watercolors.

Many of his influences are readily apparent. Aspects of Picasso, Cézanne and Dali can be seen in some of his works, but never as mere imitation. Always the best of what has gone before is digested, expanded and combined with new ideas from Ivanovich's imagination before it appears in the artist's work.

In holding allegiance to no specific school of art, Ivanovich has remained faithful only to his own instincts and to the creative process itself. And by combining aspect of various schools of art with his own spontaneous discoveries, Ivanovich has created new artistic forms. Art, for Ivanovich, is a continuing process of exploring, selecting and putting together details in pleasing unified forms.

Most recently, Ivanovich has been working with a style that combines elements of cubism with classical European figures. Skillfully, Ivanovich has united the modern with the traditional in one harmonious painting style.

"What the future holds in store for his work, I'm sure Ivanovich himself would be reluctant to speculate. But he can be sure that there will be future experimentation, growth and discovery. The creative process will continue, and, along the way, Ivanovich will leave an artistic legacy that will be studied and admired in years to come."
Bob Riepanhoff, Art Critic

"What the future holds in the store for his work, I'm sure Ivanovich himself would be reluctant to speculate. But we can be sure that there will be further experimentation, growth and discovery. The creative process will continue, and along the way, Ivanovich will leave an artistic legacy that will studied and admired in years to come."
Bob Riepanhoff, Journalist.

"The diversity of the art of Ivanovich indicates that true nature of the artist as I understand the term conceptually. Ivanovich does not allow himself to become stagnant either in technique, style or media. His work flows with his mind back and forth between artistic styles and personal experience searching for newness. Many artists move just beyond the fringe of their identifiable style but few have the courage to leave it altogether and develop a totally new concept of form and content."
Kenneth Cottingham, Art Critic.

"In his spontaneous watercolors executed in the "frozen" technique, Ivanovich demonstrates expressiveness, vitality and richness. Ivanovich's works are characterized by a rhythmic composition, which leaves impression of an easy motion giving to the paintings equivalent of musical character. Colors and drawings are applied with confidence of a master whom diligent work will make an irreproachable stylist in this /frozen/ watercolor technique. The color in Ivanovich's painting s is associative and intensive and applied with consideration to reciprocal harmony."
Ratka Cetkovic, Art Critic.

"Ivanovich's paintings arouse associative and sentimental moods, memories of spaces and peoples who smell of a definite romantic melancholy. Color, the unified factor of harmonious compositions, coordinates uniformly all painted elements. His /Ivanovich's/ paintings possess a developed internal rhythm and on the surface are expressed in a logical organization of the entire composition".
Milan Marovic and Jovanka Vujacic, Art Critics.

"Ivanovich's glowing colors and human figures are masterfully orchestrated with a cubist sense of fragmented space. Yet the total effect is one of dreamlike displacement. The figures rise like ghosts of the past"…
Kevin Lynch, "Milwaukee Journal", Art Critic.