What events started the Les Nabis?

What events started the Les Nabis?
Les Nabis (pronounced nah bee) were a group ofPost-Impressionist avant-garde artists who set the pace for finearts and graphic arts in France in the 1890s. Initially a group offriends interested in contemporary art and literature, most of themstudied at the private art school of Rodolphe Julian (AcadmieJulian) in Paris in the late 1880s.

In 1890, they began to successfully participate in publicexhibitions, while most of their artistic output remained inprivate hands or in the possession of the artists themselves. By1896, the unity of the group had already begun to break: TheHommage Czanne, painted by Maurice Denis in 1900,recollects memories of a time already gone, before even the termNabis had been revealed to the public. Meanwhile, mostmembers of the group-Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, EdouardVuillard-could stand, artistically, on their own. Only PaulSrusier had problems to overcome-though it was hisTalisman, painted at the advice of Paul Gauguin, that hadrevealed to them the way to go.