picasso the artist: from the beginning

Picasso was born in Malaga, the son of a painting teacher Jose Ruiz Blasco. In 1891 the family moved to La Coruna and then later moved onto Barcelona. In Barcelona Picasso’s father got a job teaching at Llotja.
In 1896 he started studying at the school where his father teached.
Picasso went to Madrid for two years, between 1897 and 1898, where he studied at the San Fernando Academy.
He returned to Barcelona and joined the Els Quatre Gats group, where he had his first portrait exhibition in 1897.
I between different trips to Paris, Barcelona and sometimes Madrid, he worked intensively producing exhibitions and researching ...