Spanish painter, sculptor, draughtsman, graphic and stage designer, and ceramicist who was the indisputable genius of 20th century art.    The son of a Spanish painter and art teacher, José Ruiz Blasco he studied at La Lonja in Barcelona.   His very personal style constantly developed as he learnt from his studies and associations with El Greco, Velazquez and Goya in Spain and Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin and Van Gogh in France progressing from his Blue Period in his early years in Barcelona where he drew his inspirations from the vagabonds, prostitutes and deprived people.