Pablo Picasso is an artist name known world wide. His cubistic style of painting was revolutionary in it’s time. One has to admire his creative ability and the courage it took for him to present a new approach to painting to the art world. However, Picasso’s personal life left much to be desired. His relationships with everyone were known to be a bit of a roller coaster ride. One day he is generous to a fault and the next he could be brutal. It was his love relationships that exposed some of Picasso’s worst character flaws. He would fall madly in love with a woman one day and be on to someone new within a year. He had mistresses while he was married and by the time that mistress bore him a child, he was already attached to another woman. He loved women and needed them but at the same time hated them. “For me there are only two kinds of women - goddesses or doormats” Picasso proclaimed. Several raised his children alone while he went off to start a new relationship with someone younger. He fell in love with beautiful women who were younger than him. He also required women to be shorter than him. He hated his need of women and tried to hide his vulnerability by controlling them. None of his relationships with women ended well. Most of them hated them. Olga Koklova gave up her career as a Russian ballerina to marrying Picasso and bore him a son, Paulo. painted beautiful series of paintings during this time called “Matrenite”. However, the bliss was short lived and the artist was soon continuing on with a string of infidelities. Olga was bitter about the loss of her career and said she “had only one aim left on life- to make her husband’s existence unbearable.” Olga was not the only wife or lover that was jilted and cheated on. Two of Picasso’s wives went mad and another two committed suicide. None spoke fondly of him. Knowing the identity of this artist and his lack of respect for women, makes it difficult for viewers to embrace his work with much regard. He was indeed a brilliant visual artist. It is a shame the image of him as a man over shadows his work.