Editing Pablo Picasso (section)

=== Before 1900 ===
[[File:Pablo Picasso, 1904, Paris, photograph by Ricard Canals i Llambí cut.jpg|thumb|upright|Picasso in 1904. Photograph by [[Ricard Canals]]]]
Picasso's training under his father began before 1890. His progress can be traced in the collection of early works now held by the [[Museu Picasso]]<!--MUSEU is not a typo--> in [[Barcelona]], which provides one of the most comprehensive extant records of any major artist's beginnings.<ref name="cirl6"/> During 1893 the juvenile quality of his earliest work falls away, and by 1894 his career as a painter can be said to have begun.<ref name="cirl14"/> The academic realism apparent in the works of the mid-1890s is well displayed in ''The First Communion'' (1896), a large composition that depicts his sister, Lola. In the same year, at the age of 14, he painted ''[https://www.wikiart.org/en/pablo-picasso/portrait-of-aunt-pepa-1896 Portrait of Aunt Pepa]'', a vigorous and dramatic portrait that [[Juan Eduardo Cirlot|Juan-Eduardo Cirlot]] has called "without a doubt one of the greatest in the whole history of Spanish painting."<ref name="cirl37"/>

In 1897, his realism began to show a [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolist]] influence, for example, in a series of landscape paintings rendered in non-naturalistic violet and green tones. What some call his Modernist period (1899–1900) followed. His exposure to the work of [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Rossetti]], [[Théophile Steinlen|Steinlen]], [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Toulouse-Lautrec]] and [[Edvard Munch]], combined with his admiration for favourite old masters such as [[El Greco]], led Picasso to a personal version of modernism in his works of this period.<ref name="cirl87"/>

Picasso made his first trip to [[Paris]], then the art capital of Europe, in 1900. There, he met his first Parisian friend, journalist and poet [[Max Jacob]], who helped Picasso learn the language and its literature. Soon they shared an apartment; Max slept at night while Picasso slept during the day and worked at night. These were times of severe poverty, cold, and desperation. Much of his work was burned to keep the small room warm. During the first five months of 1901, Picasso lived in [[Madrid]], where he and his [[anarchist]] friend Francisco de Asís Soler founded the magazine ''Arte Joven'' (''Young Art''), which published five issues. Soler solicited articles and Picasso illustrated the journal, mostly contributing grim cartoons depicting and sympathizing with the state of the poor. The first issue was published on 31 March 1901, by which time the artist had started to sign his work ''Picasso''.<ref name="cirl125"/> From 1898 he signed his works as "Pablo Ruiz Picasso", then as "Pablo R. Picasso" until 1901. The change does not seem to imply a rejection of the father figure. Rather, he wanted to distinguish himself from others; initiated by his Catalan friends who habitually called him by his maternal surname, much less current than the paternal Ruiz.<ref>Fermigier, André (1969). ''Picasso'', Le Livre de Poche, Série Art. Paris, Librairie Génerale Française, p. 9, {{ISBN|2-253-02455-4}}.</ref>