Pablo Picasso was born as Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
Picasso’s name is a series of the names of saints and relatives.
Picasso was born in Spain in the city of Málaga in the Andalusian region.
Pablo Picasso was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco and María Picasso y López.
Don José Ruiz, Pablo Picasso’s father, was a painter who specialized in naturalistic depictions of birds and other game.
Picasso’s family was middle-class.
After his sister, Conchita’s death, Picasso and his family moved to Barcelona. Picasso’s father, Don José Ruiz took a position at its School of Fine Arts.
Picasso was accepted to the School of Fine Arts at age thirteen after taking completing his entrance exam in a week. The normal timing for this testing period was one month. Obviously, Pablo Picasso impressed the school officials.
At age sixteen, Picasso attended Madrid’s Royal Academy of San Fernando which he stopped attending shortly after enrolling because he did not like formal education.
Picasso made his first trip to Paris in 1900 which was considered the art capital of Europe.