Who is Picasso from Ways of Seeing and what is their importance?

Picasso was an oil painter who was born in 1881. One of his paintings, titled "Nude", is reproduced in this book along with several other examples of nudes. None of the women are clothed, and except for the Cubist work by Picasso, they all display fully female features. Picasso's work is in the Cubist style that requires a great amount of viewer imagination to see a naked female body. This painting is representative of the impact on the art world that Picasso, the camera, and Cubism has.