Bakić was an important figure, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s Croatian contemporary art scene, and collaborated with the group EXAT-51 and the Nove tendencije (New Tendencies) movement. He executed many public sculptures notably, the "Call to Arms (the man from Bjelovar)", Bjelovar (1946) the "Monument to the Revolution" in Kamenska (1958–1968), the "Monument to the Train Accident Victims" in Zagreb (1975–1978), the "Monument to the Uprising of the People of Kordun and Banija" on Petrova Gora (1982) as well as monuments in Kragujevac and Dotrščina (Valley of Graves).