[3] Considered one of the most important Serbian traveling amateur painters of the 19th century, Petrović art is similar to the autochthonous, wild art of American tinsmiths and Folk artists, who share in their use of color and range of expression, spontaneity, skill, and simplicity in their work.
His children's portraits are often compared to New York painter John Bradley.
He painted in Ottoman Serbia in his early career and Habsburg Srem and Banat in his later years.
Despite his naive art painting, he joined the Serbs of Austria-Hungary, who played a significant role in the creation of the modern state and the art culture of a young civil society.
That Arsenije gladly accepted to paint children and that he did so with joy and skill, can be seen from the works exhibited in the residence of Princess Ljubica: Girl with a basket of flowers and Boy with a dove; as well as on the canvas: Portrait of little Petar Radović, from the National Museum in Niš.