Born as Pablo Ruiz Picasso on the 25th day of October 1881, the artist was a native of the Spanish City of Malaga. He was the son of Don Jose Ruiz y Blasco and his wife, Maria Picasso y Lopez. Although he was raised in the Roman Catholic faith, Pablo would later become an atheist.
He got his knack for painting from his father who was also a painter as well as a professor at the School of Fine Arts in A Coruna, at the time. He started drawing from a very young age and seeing how good he was at his craft, his father and uncle enrolled him at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the foremost art school in Madrid. There, the young artist studied for a short while before dropping out of the academy.
