8 Read the text below and think of the word that best fits each gap. Use one word only in each gap. Pablo Picasso - early life Pablo Picasso was a famous painter. He was born in Málaga 1_________ 25 October 1881 and he died in 1973. While he was 2_________ up, his father started teaching him art. He soon saw that Picasso 3_________ very good at drawing and painting. In 1900, after studying art in Madrid, Picasso went to Paris for the first time. It was an important centre of art at the time. He was living there 4_________ he met Max Jacob, a poet and journalist. They became friends. Often they 5_________ have money to buy food and they 6_________ to burn some of Picasso's paintings to stay warm. Soon, Picasso moved back to Madrid. As well as painting, he wrote for a magazine called Young Art. Between 1901 and 1904 Picasso 7_________ many pictures using mainly the colour blue. This time in his life was called the Blue Period and 8_________ are many famous paintings from this period, for example The Old Guitarist.