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Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in Málaga on October 25, 1881. His father was a teacher in the local art school (after 1901, Pablo used only the family name of his mother, Maria Picasso, as is often done in Spain). In 1891 the Ruiz Picassos moved to La Coruña in Galicia, and in 1895 to Barcelona. Only a few of Picasso's Barcelona paintings are known; among them is an oil of 1895, today in the museum of Málaga, showing an old couple in a kitchen. The theme is social, and the treatment naturalistic, but although the fourteen-year-old author is confined to the contemporary idiom, he reveals amazing technical skill.
At that time the boy served as an assistant to his father who specialized in compositions representing birds and flowers; he would cut off the legs of a dead pigeon and pin them on a board, and Pablo copied them minutely. To this day Picasso has retained a love for pigeons, which he inherited from his father, and he kept pigeons in his studio in the Rue des Grands-Augustins in Paris. The boy's sure touch and miniature-like accuracy in reproducing natural forms are particularly evident in his chalk drawings from casts. His drawings of arms and legs, for instance, are compaiable to similar things by one of the greatest naturalistic draftsmen, Adolf Menzel: they disclose the same obsession with detail, which endows his representations of objects with a demonic animation. In 1896 the fourteen-year-old artist was so competent that he took only one day to pass the entrance test for the Academy of Fine Arts, Barcelona, although the regulations allowed a whole month for this task.
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