Pablo Ruiz Picasso is known as an artist who revolutionised the plastic arts of the 20th century, from neo-figurative sculpture to cubism, as well as the scenography of ballet dance and handmade ceramics. He was known from an early age and much admired by important figures of his time.
He was born in Malaga in October 1881 and his family was quite close to art, as his father was a drawing teacher at the well-known San Telmo school. It was his father who encouraged him to take up drawing. When he was only 15 years old, he set up his first studio in that city. From then on his career only continued to improve. Two years after opening the workshop he received an honourable mention for an exhibition in Madrid with the famous work Ciencia y caridad (1897).
Towards the autumn of 1970 he visits Paris and is considered a professional artist who sells his works and has a reputation. He began to enjoy himself with other important artists of the city and shortly afterwards he held his first exhibition in the French city to which he decided to move permanently. It was during this period in France that he worked with Braque on what became known as the master lines of analytical Cubism. The work painted in 1907, Las señoritas de Aviñón, is considered an experimental work of this style (discussed in more detail in the following entry).
Progressively, the astonishment and scandal at Picasso's style, which broke with all the canons of the time, was gaining new supporters and the artist began to hold exhibitions in major cities such as New York and Munich.
Throughout his life, he travelled to different countries and his experiences, as well as his love affairs, gave rise to his world-famous works.
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