This course of action typically took students a month, but Picasso concluded it in a week, and the jury admitted him, at just thirteen. As a pupil, Picasso lacked willpower but made friendships that would impact him in later lifetime. During the first five months of 1901, Picasso lived in Madrid, where by he and his anarchist buddy Francisco de Asís Soler established the journal Arte Joven (Young Art), which revealed 5 challenges.