Picasso and his ilk are famous not for their realism. As a matter of fact the point of them is their response to realism, they exist in a world where photography was on the rise. Nothing Picasso does, save his early work is meant to be realism. Impressionism is a "If a camera can do what I do better I'll do something else."
Ultimately its Picasso and Matise that get us people like Salvador Dali. Picasso is more talented than you're giving him credit.
The realism you pulled are actually from the "rose period" and are abstract. Abstraction is expressionism and coveys meaning and is purposefully "wrong". You're looking at impressionism, modern, and abstract art as a "cop" out method and that is often how its used today, but at the time of Picasso you had to actually be really good to be allowed to be part of the impressionist movement.
These are Picasso realisms
He a very talented artist and could paint realism extremely well and had done so most of his life.
Also no one on this site would rape Picasso on canvas.
You say this isn't that "good" but if you see this or any of his paintings in real life they are a hundred times more amazing. You realize the whole thing it made of dots, that there are a hundred colors you could never see before, and that there are a few inches worth of paint sticking out on the canvas.
Prior to Picasso's time there is no reason to challenge realism because no one but an artist could create a picture of you, but with cameras what was the point of realism. Picasso and his kind start realizing the shapes within the human form and reduce them to their basic levels and his work in color theory is invaluable to the modern world. Picasso led the charge on challenging what forms expression could take, its thanks to Picasso you get something like this:
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