The Spanish artist Pablo Picasso was a leading figure of 20th Century art. He was a prolific, passionate, and influential painter that became fabulously wealthy and famous during his lifetime. Picasso lived a long and eventful life that has been written about in countless books and mythologized in several movies about the artist.

Pablo Ruiz was born on the 25th of October, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. He was the first son of José Ruiz Blasco and mother María Picasso López. The myth of Picasso began with his birth, when it is said he was given up for dead. The new born Pablo was suffocating until his uncle Don Salvador blew cigar smoke in his face and forced the child to cry.

Pablo was christened as Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paulo Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Crispin Crispiano Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. He was simply known as Pablo Ruiz while growing up. The young Pablo grew up surrounded by women, including his mother, grandmother, two aunts, and a female maid. He also had two sisters; Lola (Dolores) born in 1884 and Concepcion (Conchita) born in 1887.

Picasso struggled with academic schooling as a child and often had to be dragged to school kicking and screaming. He could not concentrate and would see numbers as images.

"I'll show them what I can do! They'll see how I can concentrate. I won't miss a single detail.. The little eye of the pigeon is round an 0. Under the 0 is a 6 for the breast, underneath that a 3. The eyes are like 2's, and so are the wings." Pablo Picasso quote

From a very early age Picasso was around art as his father was an art teacher and curator of the town museum. The young Pablo painted his first oil painting at the age of just 8, "The Picador", 1889.



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