Picasso and His Women

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, the founder of Cubism, and according to a 2009 survey by The Times, the most famous artist of the 20th century. However, as it was known, nothing human was foreign to him. Pablo Picasso... loved women very much. As he said himself: "I did not wait for a sensible age to begin. If you wait for it, reason may later hinder you." He started visiting Barcelona's brothels at the age of 15. He then continued to add to his "Don Juan list" in Paris - the recognized capital of love. Undoubtedly, women influenced Picasso's life, but he also influenced them even more. The poet Charles Baudelaire once said that a man has only two paths: either he becomes a slave to a woman or turns into an executioner, tormenting her body and soul. The great Picasso can confidently be classified as one of those executioners. No wonder his mother told Olga Khokhlova: "I do not think any woman could be happy with my son, who is solely concerned with himself."