Hometown

The first son of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez; the world famous Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso, was born on October 25th, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. The world renowned painter first learned the artistic basics from his father, who was a painter and professor at the School of Crafts and the curator of a local museum. Picasso is estimated to have produced about 13,500 painting or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures and/or ceramics. The successful artist is best known as being one of the founders of cubism, and of course he was known for modernism.