The Evolution of Picasso Pablo Picasso was born in the Spanish coastal town, of Malaga on October 25, 1881 to parents Jose Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso Lopez. Picasso was known to be a genius by the time he was ten years old, which was when he painted his first picture. He would go on to paint very many paintings and the first of these were focused on bullfighting; the significance is in the fact that he had been exposed to it since he was 3. When Picasso turned 15, he entered the Barcelona’s School of Fine Arts, where his father was an art teacher. That is where he really learned to paint. Soon after entering the school he won a gold medal for his very realistic painting of a doctor, a nun, and a child at a sick woman’s bed entitled, “Science and Charity”. There was a rumor that one day Pablo’s father asked him to finish the pigeons in a picture he was working on. They say Pablo painted them so well that his father put down his paintbrush and never painted again. His father realized the talent that his son had. In 1899 Picasso quit his academic studies and joined the circle of young avant-garde artists and writers who gathered at the local tavern. There they worked on all different styles of art. In 1900 Picasso had his first solo exhibition, which included many different styles of art. Also in 1900, Picasso began traveling back and forth to Paris before settling there in 1904. While in Paris he began painting pictures from the streets of Paris and Barcelona. He would find a scene that he found interesting and he would sit down and put it on canvas. Between 1900 and 1901 he began to paint with bright, unmixed colors. Some of his subjects for this new style of painting were scenes of the Parisian nightlife, such as the dance hall and now famous painting, Le Moulin de la Galette. Picasso’s most important early exhibition took place in 1901 at the Ambroise