Pablo Picasso

A Brief Biography


Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso was the most famous artist of the 20th century. He was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. Picasso showed great talent at an early age. He loved to paint pictures of city life and was fascinated by the circus. He also enjoyed painting pictures of the day-to-day life of poor people in his neighbourhood and was also very poor himself. His father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, was a Castilian art teacher in Malaga and his mother, Maria Picasso, was an Andalusian of Majorcan origin. In 1896 Picasso entered the school of fine arts where his father was a professor.


In 1900, Picasso visited Paris, at the time the world's centre for art and literature, and became infatuated with its street life, in particular, the area of Montmarte, Paris' bohemian district where he was able to study the City's poorer people. More importantly, it was here that he discovered the posters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which inspired him into......

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