Labels:daily | person | socinian | tie OCR: Pablo Picasso Though Picasso once said: 'there are no prodigies painting in he showed outstanding ability in drawing from an early abe He himself said: "It is quite remarkable that I Inever did childish drawings Never NOt even asa small boy. He went to art school at the age of 11 and at 14 was admitted to the Academy of Art at Barcelona. At 15 his painting 'First Communion was publicly exhibited in an exhibition of i the important Catalan artists of ithe day. At16 he was sent to the Royal Academy at Madrid. but decided that there was nothing more that he could learn there and dropped out. At 19 his painting Last Moments was chosen for exhibition at the Spanish pavilion of the Paris World Fair of 1900. Picasso continued to paint until ! the very end producing literally hundreds of pictures ...