early works (jaume)

Picasso’s training under his father began before 1890. His progress can be traced in the collection of early works now held by the Museum Picasso in Barcelona, which provides one of the most comprehensive records extant of any major artist’s beginnings. 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. 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 Portrait of Aunt Pepa,



the first comunion

aunt pepa


In 1897 his realism became tinged with Symbolist influence, 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 Rossetti, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec and Edward Munch, combined with his admiration for favorite old masters such as El Greco, led Picasso to a personal version of modernism in his works of this period.


When they're young the artists demonstrate than they have got tallent, it's very difficult to stand out because the world of art is sophisticated and prestigious. In this period Picasso learned to paint, the maxim influence during that time is realism and he painted beautiful realist portraits.