Catalan painter Joan Miro, who started his career in Barcelona, became one of the most prominent masters of avant-garde in France. His style was influenced by Picasso and Parisian dadaists (the word “dada” can be translated “playing rocking horses, " while figuratively it means “baby talk”). This art movement, which aimed at unrestrained nihilism, denial and overthrow of artistic traditions, and public provocations, was represented by poets André Breton, Louis Aragon, and Paul Éluard, as well as artists Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia. Joan Miro was also among them.