Artists of the second generation of the Nagybánya art school did not learn in Munich but in Paris where they joined the most recent art trends. Most of them were influenced by Fauves, some were pupils of Matisse (e.g. Vilmos Perlrott-Csaba, Géza Bornemissza), or others had joint exhibitions with him (Béla Czóbel, Sándor Ziffer) and took the style to Nagybánya with themselves where Béla Czóbel launched a revolution in 1903 with an exhibition of pictures which he had painted in Paris. Intensive colours in plain compositions are surrounded by strong contours with shapes simplified. The style "neo" (abbreviation of "neo-impressionism") was taken over to Kecskemét and Budapest, and gave rise to the first Hungarian avant-garde group in 1909 with artists of "neo" chiefly which, in its turn, was later known as "Searchers" who exhibited their works under the name "Eights" (e.g. Béla Czóbel, Lajos Tihanyi).