Picasso is well known to sacrifice everything posible for the sake of his career. Whether it be to emotionally manipulate his mistresses to compete and fight eachother for his love, to abuse his wives to clinical insanity, to driving his entire family to suicide. Picasso's art was fuel to burn women.
''Women are machines for suffering,'' he told his mistress Françoise Gilot, ''for me there are only two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats.''
Some like to turn around Picasso's exploitative behaviour and argue that his art potrayed his muses in a positive light, which, he did, because he saw himself reflected off those women. He squeezed every drop of life out of them and used their empty carcasses as a window to look through of.
Picasso wouldn't have been what he was without women, and yet it is true that many of his lovers influenced him artistically I'm referring to as how abusing his muses is what his art was. He worked so hard to turn them around, paint them, sculpt them, crush them, throw them away. Female suffering was what his career was based off of. One thing couldn't exist without the other. ''Picasso invented a new style each time he fell in love with a new woman''- Arthur Danto.
