{"id":5236,"date":"2013-02-27T10:09:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T10:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2013-02-27T10:16:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T10:16:26","slug":"picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Picasso\u2019s earliest works in M\u00e1laga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 19th century, Malaga was a city full of contrasts. The enterprising spirit of the bourgeois classes had resulted in there being over 150 registered factories here in 1878. A large part of the population worked in them, with working hours of up to seventy hours a week. Described in travel books as \u201cGod\u2019s paradise on earth\u201d, this superbly located seaport suffered a series of natural disasters during this period that brought on an economic recession. The city tried to recover from this with new plans for urban growth and by promoting alternative forms of business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/d1506a5d83265db338bc14168c4aec75_L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/d1506a5d83265db338bc14168c4aec75_L.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/d1506a5d83265db338bc14168c4aec75_L.jpg 600w, https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/d1506a5d83265db338bc14168c4aec75_L-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was the context in which Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and spent his childhood. The boy grew up in a predominantly female household, surrounded by his mother, Maria Picasso, and his aunts and sisters. There was also the social circle of his father, Jos\u00e9 Ruiz Blasco, a teacher and painter who enjoyed literary and artistic gatherings and the bullfighting world, and had connections to Malaga\u2019s artistic circles. He supervised his son\u2019s training from very early on, introducing him to the principles of technique and composition, which the child quickly grasped. As Picasso himself recalled in 1943: \u201cMy early drawings could never have been shown at an exhibition of children\u2019s drawings\u2026 they had barely any of the awkwardness or naivety of a child\u2026 I quickly outgrew that period of wonderful vision\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Portraits of his relations, lesson studies, bullfighting scenes, landscapes, still-lifes and copies of other artworks all bear testimony to those early years, when the young boy portrayed his home environment and the landscape around it to suit the aesthetic tastes of the city at that time. In 1891, the Ruiz-Picasso family left Malaga and only returned there for short periods of time. The last time Pablo Picasso visited was in 1901, in the company of his friend Carles Casagemas. By the age of twenty, his brushstrokes were gradually moving away from their early academic style and gaining a freedom that would lead him to become the great artist of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpicassom.org\/prensa\/PDFs\/Picasso_of_Malaga.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Picasso de M\u00e1laga. Earliest Works<\/em><\/a> maps this period of the budding artist and his family. It brings together an outstanding collection of 53 works from the artist\u2019s childhood and youth, along with a selection of works produced in his later years that invite us to reflect on the way this initial period may have left its mark on Picasso and his work.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition also contains 35 works by other artists such as Jos\u00e9 Denis Belgrano, Antonio Mu\u00f1oz Degrain, Joaqu\u00edn Mart\u00ednez de la Vega, or the artist\u2019s own father, Jos\u00e9 Ruiz Blasco, that reproduce the artistic atmosphere in Malaga at the time. There are also 104 documents including photographs, maps and objects that recreate the city as it stood on the threshold between two centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Organized in collaboration with Museu Picasso de Barcelona, the exhibition has been enhanced thanks to contributions from private collectors in Malaga, the Museo del Prado, Museo de M\u00e1laga, the Biblioteca Nacional de Espa\u00f1a, Fundaci\u00f3n Pablo Ruiz Picasso Museo Casa Natal, the Museo del Patrimonio Municipal and a number of international art museums. The Picasso of Malaga. Earliest Works exhibition is the first of three exhibitions held as part of the MPM\u00b4s 10th Anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museopicassomalaga.org\/exposicion.cfm?id=88\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>25.02.2013 &#8211; 09.06.2013<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 19th century, Malaga was a city full of contrasts. The enterprising spirit of the bourgeois classes had resulted in there being over 150 registered factories here in 1878. A large part of the population worked in them, with working hours of up to seventy hours a week. Described in travel books as [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,11,4],"tags":[1024,445],"class_list":["post-5236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costa-del-sol","category-malaga","category-spain","tag-exhibition","tag-picasso"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Picasso\u2019s earliest works in M\u00e1laga -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"taylorwimpeyespana\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"taylorwimpeyespana\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d4a2f737d47bc77a017e797f933e4a0b\"},\"headline\":\"Picasso\u2019s earliest works in M\u00e1laga\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-27T10:09:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-02-27T10:16:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/\"},\"wordCount\":554,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/d1506a5d83265db338bc14168c4aec75_L.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Exhibition\",\"Picasso\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Costa del Sol\",\"Malaga\",\"Spain\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/\",\"name\":\"Picasso\u2019s earliest works in M\u00e1laga -\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/d1506a5d83265db338bc14168c4aec75_L.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-27T10:09:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-02-27T10:16:26+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/d1506a5d83265db338bc14168c4aec75_L.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/d1506a5d83265db338bc14168c4aec75_L.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Picasso\u2019s earliest works in M\u00e1laga\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Taylor Wimpey de Espa\u00f1a\",\"description\":\"Building new homes on Mallorca, the Costa Blanca and the Costa del Sol since 1958.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Taylor Wimpey de Espa\u00f1a\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/logo-taylor-wimpey-espa\u00f1a.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/logo-taylor-wimpey-espa\u00f1a.png\",\"width\":139,\"height\":92,\"caption\":\"Taylor Wimpey de Espa\u00f1a\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d4a2f737d47bc77a017e797f933e4a0b\",\"name\":\"taylorwimpeyespana\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/63b02a35ebd48558152bb85bee2d34154987285b82e0b6a9897a3cd823dd15e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/63b02a35ebd48558152bb85bee2d34154987285b82e0b6a9897a3cd823dd15e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/63b02a35ebd48558152bb85bee2d34154987285b82e0b6a9897a3cd823dd15e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"taylorwimpeyespana\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/author\/taylorwimpeyespana\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Picasso\u2019s earliest works in M\u00e1laga -","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"taylorwimpeyespana","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/"},"author":{"name":"taylorwimpeyespana","@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d4a2f737d47bc77a017e797f933e4a0b"},"headline":"Picasso\u2019s earliest works in M\u00e1laga","datePublished":"2013-02-27T10:09:54+00:00","dateModified":"2013-02-27T10:16:26+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/"},"wordCount":554,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/d1506a5d83265db338bc14168c4aec75_L.jpg","keywords":["Exhibition","Picasso"],"articleSection":["Costa del Sol","Malaga","Spain"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/","url":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/","name":"Picasso\u2019s earliest works in M\u00e1laga -","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/d1506a5d83265db338bc14168c4aec75_L.jpg","datePublished":"2013-02-27T10:09:54+00:00","dateModified":"2013-02-27T10:16:26+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/d1506a5d83265db338bc14168c4aec75_L.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/d1506a5d83265db338bc14168c4aec75_L.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/picassos-earliest-works-in-malaga\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Picasso\u2019s earliest works in M\u00e1laga"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/","name":"Taylor Wimpey de Espa\u00f1a","description":"Building new homes on Mallorca, the Costa Blanca and the Costa del Sol since 1958.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Taylor Wimpey de Espa\u00f1a","url":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/logo-taylor-wimpey-espa\u00f1a.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/logo-taylor-wimpey-espa\u00f1a.png","width":139,"height":92,"caption":"Taylor Wimpey de Espa\u00f1a"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d4a2f737d47bc77a017e797f933e4a0b","name":"taylorwimpeyespana","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/63b02a35ebd48558152bb85bee2d34154987285b82e0b6a9897a3cd823dd15e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/63b02a35ebd48558152bb85bee2d34154987285b82e0b6a9897a3cd823dd15e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/63b02a35ebd48558152bb85bee2d34154987285b82e0b6a9897a3cd823dd15e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"taylorwimpeyespana"},"url":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/author\/taylorwimpeyespana\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hOmn-1ms","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}