 They were soon joined by painter Nicolae Grant and caricaturist Nicolae Petrescu-Găină.The exhibits featured some of Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești's own drawings, which he intended to use as illustrations for his book of French-language poems, "Sensations internes" ("Internal Sensations").He planned for his art movement to reach outside Romania, and, also in 1896, financed an international exhibition of independent and avant-garde artists.