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  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Pablo Picasso , known as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century . I shall explore the evolution of a young Pablo Ruiz Picasso to the experienced genius that had shaped the way we see art today . From his Blue and Rose periods through the birth of Cubism , to the struggles of the experimental thirties . As we go to the death of a proud father .   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Picasso was born in Malaga on the 25th of October 1881 . The only children of the family were Pablo and his younger sister . As you know Spaniards take the name of one’s father and of one’s mother . The name Ruiz was his father’s . His mother’s was Picasso . His birth name is Pablo Ruiz Picasso . Since its such a long name its a pain to sign so he shortened it . On Pablo’s earlier canvases he signed Pablo Ruiz but later changed his name to who we know of now , Pablo Picasso . Picasso is of Italian origin and the Picasso were silversmiths . Physically Pablo resembles his mother , small and robust with a vigorous body , dark-skinned , straight not very fine black hair . Picasso used to always say that his father was like an English-man . His father , Josà © Ruiz Blasco was tall and had reddish hair and an English way of carrying himself .   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  As a child Picasso was making drawings , not the drawings of a child would have but one a painter would have painted . When he was fifteen years old he would make oil portraits of his younger sister . He painted like a born painter . Then at age nineteen Picasso was off to Paris . Two months later he went back to Barcelona sold some paintings . Picasso settled in Madrid and starts the magazine â€Å" Arte Joven â€Å" with the writer Francisco de Assis Saler. Soon after Picasso goes back to Barcelona and then back to Paris again . Picasso had friends but none of where painters , no they were all writers .   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  In 1902 Picasso returned to Spain and painting in his Blue period . Being in away from Spain for a while he forgot how colorless it is . The colors of Spain are white , black , silver and gold yet it was still beautiful . Span in a sense is not like other southern countries ,