some fun facts about Picasso

 

•         Picasso's full name has 23 words. His real name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso.
•         His long name comes from a list of saints and relatives.
•         His mother's name was Maria Picasso y Lopez.
•         His father's name was Jose Ruiz Blasco.
•         He received his last name from his mother.
•         Picasso was born extremely small. In fact, he was so tiny that the nurse thought that he was stillborn. Therefore, she left him sitting on a table while she went to take care of his mother. His uncle wound up saving him from death.
•         His uncle's name was Don Salvador.
•         His first word was "lapiz," the Spanish word for pencil.
•         His father was an artist, art professor and museum curator.
•         His father started teaching art to him when he was seven years old.
•         Pablo completed his first painting when he was nine years old. The title of the painting was Le Picador. The image is of a man riding a horse in a bullfight.
•         His father decided that he would give up painting when Picasso was 13 years old because he felt his son was already a better painter than him.
•         Picasso was 15 when he finished First Communion, which was an extremely well known portrait depicting his father, mother, and sister.
•         Picasso was not a good student and he was frequently given detention.
•         He studied at the Royal Academy of San Fernando.
•         Picasso was extremely fond of the works of El Greco.
•         In between his Blue and Rose Periods, Pablo Picasso moved to France.
•         Picasso's first job was with an art dealer named Pere Menach.
•         Picasso was a co-founder in the movement known as Cubism.
•         The Nazis would not let Picasso display his paintings in Germany.
•         Picasso had many lovers throughout his life. He often painted pictures of one his many lovers, named Dora Maar.
•         Picasso had four different children by three different women.
•         He was married twice.
•         Picasso passed away on April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France.