What school did Picasso go to?

Or shall we decide an artist’s merit on their artwork rather than the school they attended?

An interesting, and valid, rhetorical question.

Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso was born in 1881. From 1888, when he was seven, Picasso received his early formal training in figure drawing and painting from his fifty-year old father Jose Ruiz y Blasco (1838-1913).

Jose Ruiz y Blasco was a teacher of drawing at the Escuela Provincial de Bellas Artes in Malaga. He specialised in images of doves and pigeons.

In 1891, when Picasso was ten, Ruiz y Blasco moved his family to La Coruna and taught at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, where his son attended his ornamental drawing classes.

In 1895, when Picasso was fourteen, following the death of Picasso’s seven-year-old sister Concita from diphtheria, Ruiz y Blasco moved his family to Barcelona and taught classes, which Picasso also attended, at the Escuela de Bellas Artes (“La Lonja”).

When Picasso was sixteen, at the urging of his father and uncle, he entered Madrid’s Royal Academy of San Fernando, Spain’s foremost art school, but, by now disliking formal instruction, soon withdrew from the program, preferring to learn from his observations of the collections of the likes of El Greco housed at Madrid’s Museo del Prado.

Thereafter, it seems that Picasso was entirely self-taught.