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In 1891, Pepe was transferred to Coruña, on the northwestern Spanish coast, following the closure of the museum in Malaga. He took his family with him. Picasso was ten years old.

As soon as they arrived, Don José enrolled Pablo in the Instituto de la Guarda, which was located in the same building as the city's Museum of Fine Arts, but he was still not interested in the schooling.

At the age of 13, the young Picasso was confronted with a traumatic event. His sister, Conchita, fell ill and died of diphtheria at the age of 7. He recounts this episode, sixty years later, to Françoise Gilot (his companion at the time), who transcribes it in her book "Living with Picasso". Picasso explains that he wished to stop drawing if his sister was able to cope. Unfortunately for her, the wish was not fulfilled, and the ghost of this funeral promise followed the artist for the rest of his career.

Artistic production

Since 1892, Picasso was enrolled in a drawing class at the Fine Arts School in C

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Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)

The artistic genius of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) has impacted the development of modern and contemporary art with unparalleled magnitude. His prolific output includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets and costumes that convey myriad intellectual, political, social, and amorous messages. His creative styles transcend realism and abstraction, Cubism, Neoclassicism, Surrealism, and Expressionism. Born in Málaga, Spain, in 1881, Picasso studied art briefly in Madrid in 1897, then in Barcelona in 1899, where he became closely associated with a group of modernist poets, writers, and artists who gathered at the café Els Quatre Gats (The Four Cats), including the Catalan Carlos Casagemas (1880–1901).

Living intermittently in Paris and Spain until 1904, his work during these years suggests feelings of desolation and darkness inspired in part by the suicide of his friend Casagemas. Picasso’s paintings from late 1901 t

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Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881-1973

Picasso exhibited signs of creative talent early on and his father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, a painter and teacher, began formally training him. In 1895 his family moved to Barcelona, Spain where his father took a teaching position at the School of Fine Arts and persuaded officials there to allow the young Picasso to take an entrance exam for an advanced class. He was admitted to the school at the age of thirteen and went on to attend the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid at sixteen. He chose to leave academia shortly after arriving in Madrid, electing instead to spend his time studying the paintings that hung in the Museo Nacional del Prado. 

 

In 1904 the artist moved to Paris, where he was immersed in the avant-garde art scene but lived in abject poverty for his first years there. This time (1901-1904) was memorialized in the famed Blue Period series where the somber palette and bleak scenes depicting the cities p