Publisher's Synopsis
Full Name Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, he was born on the 25th of October 1881 and lived until the 8th of April 1973. Picasso was born in the city of Malaga in the Andalusian region of Spain. His parents were Don Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez. Though his fathers ancestors were minor nobility Picasso's family was middle class. His father was a painter who also worked as the curator of a museum and professor of art for most of his life. Picasso was baptized and rasied as a catholic though later in life he became an atheist. The love of art that Picasso's father had served him well. Picasso moved out on his own in a studio apartment near his parents when he was just 13. This was so he could have solitude while he pursued his art. His father also introduced him to many artists and helped him get admitted into art school. Picasso was a good art student, but only attended briefly. Picasso was a prolific artist. He painted hundreds of upon hundreds of full canvases, drawings, sketches and sculpture. His art fell into many categories from; Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Japonism, Expressionism, Art Nouveau, and Cubism which he helped create and for which he is most famous for.
