 "Salonul" boasted among its honorary members the lionized oil painter Nicolae Grigorescu, who had trained with the Barbizon school.Bogdan-Pitești was especially fond of Luchian's work, and, in an 1896 article for the cultural magazine "Revista Orientală", spoke of him as "an admirable colorist", a "free spirit", and a purveyor of "revolutionary ideas".He boosted Luchian's self-confidence, urging him to apply his talents to illustrating "an idea", and was entirely adverse to Grigorescu's traditionalist manner.