Pablo Picasso's painting Science and Charity (1897;…
1897 CE
The son of José Ruiz Blasco, a professor of drawing, and Maria Picasso López, Pablo displayed an unusual adeptness for drawing around the age of ten, when he became his father's pupil in La Coruña, where the family had moved in 1891 from Málaga.
His ability to experiment with what he learned and to develop new expressive means quickly allowed him to surpass his father's abilities.
In La Coruña his father shifted his own ambitions to those of his son, providing him with models and support for his first exhibition there at the age of thirteen.
The family had moved in the autumn of 1895 to Barcelona, and Pablo entered the local art academy (La Llotja), where his father had assumed a post (his last) as professor of drawing.
The family hopes that their son will achieve success as an academic painter, and in 1897 his eventual fame in Spain seems assured.
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Pablo Picasso: Science and Charity (1897); oil on canvas 197 cm x 249.5 cm ; Museu Picasso, Barcelona.
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