Two pictures of a wallet photo

Once upon a time, on a train in Spain, a man peered across the carriage and saw none-other than Pablo Picasso himself. Mustering his courage, he approached the debauched artist, “Pablo, why does everything you paint look so strange? Blue? Cubes? What’s that all about? Why don’t you paint things realistic?” “What’s realistic?”, said Picasso. And so the man fished from his wallet a tiny photo, “Like this, of my dear wife.” An astonished Picasso, replied, “Is she really so small and flat?” Beijing 2012