Visiting the Picasso Museum in Barcelona gives you the possibility of seeing the influence from many of the major artistic styles in the beginning of the 20th century.
Picasso was trained according to the Spanish education system. Around the turn of the century teaching of visual art was built around the study of classical models and copies of these models. Picasso's first years at school were marked by numerous copies of classic works, models and style exercises where an exact copy of nature was the goal.
The early experiments and the blue period are in focus in the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, and that makes the museum a fascinating study of Picasso's development from the talent that makes him the 20th century perhaps best-known painter.
