THE DAILY PIC (#1402, Picasso Edition): Our week’s penultimate Picasso Pic is all about his unlikely ambitions in realism. But none of that is what makes this piece worthy of being Pic’d.

To have your portrait painted is to become immortalized. Think of the farm couple in The American Gothic, or Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. It’s a symbolic practice that has spanned centuries, yet its purpose ...