History of Pablo Picasso


 Picasso was born at 23:15 on 25 October 1881, in the city of Málaga, Andalusia, in southern Spain.[2] He was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco (1838–1913) and María Picasso y López.[14] Picasso's family was of middle-class background. His father was a painter who specialized in naturalistic depictions of birds and other game. For most of his life, Ruiz was a professor of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum.[1]


Picasso's birth certificate and the record of his baptism include very long names, combining those of various saints and relatives.[a][c] Ruiz y Picasso were his paternal and maternal surnames, respectively, per Spanish custom. The surname "Picasso" comes from Liguria, a coastal region of north-western Italy.[16] Pablo's maternal great-grandfather, Tommaso Picasso, moved to Spain around 1807.[16]


Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age. According to his mother, his first words were "piz, piz", a shortening of lápiz, the Spanish word for "pencil".[17] From the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting. Ruiz was a traditional academic artist and instructor, who believed that proper training required disciplined copying of the masters, and drawing the human body from plaster casts and live models. His son became preoccupied with art to the detriment of his classwork.[18]


The family moved to A Coruña in 1891, where his father became a professor at the School of Fine Arts. They stayed for almost four years. On one occasion, the father found his son painting over his unfinished sketch of a pigeon. Observing the precision of his son's technique, an apocryphal story relates, Ruiz felt that the thirteen-year-old Picasso had surpassed him, and vowed to give up painting,[19] though paintings by him exist from later years.

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