Pablo Picasso 21. (show) his truly exceptional talent from a very young age. He 22. (learn) to draw before he could talk. His father 23. (work) as a drawing teacher at a college. He was an amateur artist. Pablo often watched his father paint and sometimes was allowed to help him. One evening his father 24. (paint) a picture of their pigeons when he had to leave the room. He returned to find that Pablo 25. (complete) the picture, and it was so amazingly beautiful and lifelike that he gave his son his own palette and brushes. Pablo 26. (be) just 13. From then on wards there was no stopping him. Many people realized that he was a genius but he disappointed those who wanted him to become a traditional painter. 27. always (break) the rules of artistic tradition and 28. (shock) the public with his strange really powerful pictures. He is probably best known for his "Cubist" pictures, which used only simple geometric shapes.