On October 25, 1881, Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born to Father Don Jose Ruiz Blasco and Mother Maria Picasso. As a child, it was obvious he was destined to be touched by art, due to his father’s profession. Don Jose was an artist, curator at Malaga Museum, and an art teacher. He soon discovered his son’s natural talent and began educating him at their home studio. In 1895, the family moved to Barcelona where Pablo was accepted into La Lonja Art School (although he was too young). “The professors at the academy were astounded by his entrance examination. Picasso had finished the exercises the rest of the students took a month to do, in a day. They called h

im a prodigy --a child with brilliant talents” (Scarborough 9). By the age of thirteen, Pablo was already finishing his father’s artwork. In some of Picasso’s paintings, he would draw people with thick legs to remind him of happy days as a child. He would crawl under the table and look at everybody’s ankles! In 1897, Pablo was sent to the Royal Academy of Madrid where he followed his family’s wishes to pursue traditional Spanish art. He left after three years later. To reflect his independence, he adopted his mother’s middle name and started signing his work Picasso.

During World War I and World War II, Spain did not take part in either side. Picasso remained neutral. However, by 1936, Picasso took charge. His sign of protest was portrayed in his painting Guernica (see attachment B), where he depicts the war from the victims point of view. He didn’t paint the actual scene of the bombing. He wanted to portray the terrible things that happen to people during wartime. There are many events hinted throughout this piece. For example, he draws a distorted figure supposedly to be a mother grieving over her dead child. Animals are being slain and women are weeping. He uses dark colors to represent the emotions of the victims. Although these types of figures aren’t new to Picasso’s paintings, he combined all of his styles into this one piece. This painting alone brought him world fame. After the Nazi were run out, Paris was a free city. American soldiers wanted to see two things: The Eiffel Tower and Picasso’s s

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