"My neighbor does artwork very similar to this picasso. She is in the third grade." Picasso painted this when he was 15...
He did this portrait of his mother the same year...
He is also quoted as having said, "As a child, I could paint like Raphael, but it took a lifetime to paint like a child."
Thank you for that bit of information. I know little of art and all I know of Picasso is the paintings that he did that he seems to be known for, like the one this article is about.