MIÉNK (Magyar Impresszionisták és Naturalisták Köre - Hungarian Society of Impressionists and Naturalists) was founded in Budapest in 1908. Almost one half of its artists came from the Nagybánya art school representing a variety of styles and generations. Their leaders were Pál Szinyei Merse, József Rippl-Rónai and Károly Ferenczy. Works of MIÉNK artists were first exhibited in Nemzeti Szalon in 1908. After the second exhibition in 1909, works were exhibited in Kolozsvár, Nagyvárad and Arad in Transylvania where mainly works of Lajos Gulácsy and Rippl-Rónai met with success. Members of the The Eight were not present in the third and last exhibition in 1910, they had already separated from MIÉNK by then.