José Ruiz y Blasco was a Spanish painter and art teacher, and the father of artist Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

 (1881-1973).

He was a teacher of drawing at the Escuela Provincial de Bellas Artes in Málaga

Málaga

Málaga is a city and a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain. This is the southernmost large city in Europe...

 and a painter specialising in images of doves and pigeons, and gave his son his first art lessons in 1888. In 1891 he moved to La Coruna and taught at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, where his son attended his ornamental drawing classes. In 1895 he moved to Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

and taught at the Escuela de Bellas Artes ("La Lonja").