Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain on October 25, 1881. Picasso's parents were Maria Picasso y Lopez and José Ruiz Blasco, a teacher of drawing and a curator. Picasso was a prodigy of his father so he "began to draw before he could speak"(Sirrocco). By age eight Picasso had took up painting with oils. He loved to illustrate the bullfights. When Picasso turned ten his family had to moved to La Coruña because of financial reasons. Picasso begins to study under his father who got a job teaching drawing and painting at a secondary school. Three years later they move to Barcelona and Picasso enrolls into "La Lonja" school of fine arts as a painter. …
