1.Pablo Picasso

Probably one of the most famous artists who has ever lived, Picasso transformed our conception of modern art. He is known for developing a wide variety of styles such as the cubist movement, the collage, and many more. However, reaching this level of affluence came at the price of grinding countless women into the dirt. Marina Picasso, his daughter, says that the continued psychological abuse of women at his hand was all part of his bizarre creative process. Out of the seven significant women in Picasso’s life, two committed suicide and two went mad. “He needed the blood of those who loved him,” said Marina about her father. Even Picasso himself is on record calling women “machines for suffering.” He was also known to seduce underage women and make odious comments about them. Picasso once said, “to make a dove, you must first wring its neck,” The severe emotional abuse which he inflicted on the women in his life has often been cast aside as an unfortunate but not irredeemable characteristic, rather than a sign of someone who should be cuffed up sent to jail if he was still alive.

2.Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas is most known for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. His work often depicted dancers, and he changed how movement could be expressed on a canvas. However, he was also a raging anti-Semite. In 1894, army captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, was charged with selling military secrets to Germany. Although it was later decreed that Dreyfus was framed, Degas paid no attention to this fact and convinced himself that this incident showed all Jews to be awful people. He cut off contact from all Jews he knew, including one incredibly close friend and started to maliciously attack the work of fellow Jewish impressionist, Camille Pisarro. To make matters even worse, he was reported to highly admire  about Pisarro’s work before Dreyfus. In fact, Degas’ racism became so intense at times that he made even the most awful of white supremacists look like liberals. He once chased a model out of his studio for being Jewish and went into a screaming meltdown, even though she was actually Protestant. By the time he died, he had been cut off by most close to him who were fed up with his anti-Semitism.

3.Salvador Dali

We all remember Salvador Dali for his bizarre paintings of melting clocks or elephants with long legs. He is probably one of the most revered Surrealists and an important influence on many forms of 20th century art. However, what’s often drowned out by immense praise and admiration is his sick admiration of Hitler and his tendency towards violence. As he writes in his autobiography, when he was five, he pushed a boy off a high suspension bridge. One year later, he kicked his three-year-old sister’s head “as though it had been a ball.” While these accusations could simply be written off as childish stupidity, his sadistic cruelty only worsened as he aged. When he was 29, he “trampled” a girl who gave him a compliment, saying, “so true that I found her insistence on this matter stupid” until his companions “had to tear her, bleeding,” from his grasp. But wait, there’s more! Dali had repeatedly sympathized with Hitler which often irked his Marxist friends, and was later kicked out from the Paris Surrealist Group for this reason. Dali once said, “There was no reason for me to stop telling one and all that to me Hitler embodied the perfect image of the great masochist who would unleash a world war solely for the pleasure of losing and burying himself beneath the rubble.” Dali also highly admired the dictator Francisco Franco, whose dictatorship led to around 100,000 deaths by use of concentration camps, executions, and forced labor.