How Picasso came to his art work

Pablo was 8 when he started painting, he would make drawing but they were different from children's drawing today. At Picasso's young age, like mature artists would draw and paint, children were expected to draw as closely to nature as possible.

Pablo received drawing lessons at school, in Malaga Spain, at the age 5 and on. Children were taught based on the simple geometric forms how to draw, which lead to more detail and an accurate image of the subject. This approach to art would develop Picasso's sense of space, geometry and lay a foundation for the ease. His father sent him to schools where he worked as a teacher and gave him sessions.

Since Pablo's father was an art teacher he would take control of all of his education in art. Picasso's father was present in his life either at school or at home. In his first two major paintings, which were "The First Communion" which was painted in 1896 and "Science and Charity" painted in 1897, Pablo includes the (rather uninspired) portrait of his father.

Pablo's father used his influence with local newspapers to promote his work. As well as with jury members of art contests, that Pablo was in. His father got a new job at the an art school called Instituto da Guarda in La Coruna, to where they would have to move there and change schools. Pablo joins his father at the school as a student, in 1892.

For three years Pablo started with the copying of basic forms, which he enjoyed. Geometric forms was used to create a simplified form of the natural object. By using that, more detail was added in several highly methodical stages. Pablo basically followed his father where ever he went.

His father was appointed at the art academy La Lonja in Barcelona, in 1895, where once again he was joined by Pablo. By renting him a studio in Barcelona, Pablo's father promoted Pablo's independence.