Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caning / Shannen Milletary

I find the use of different materials in Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caning interesting. I automatically think of a still life as being flowers, fish, something maybe symbolic like the memento mori paintings. Picasso uses paint, cloth, rope and chair caning to create this collage-newspaper-cafe kind of effect. Mostly though, I like how the viewer can relate to and recognize what he or she is seeing (something that probably isn't as common in a cubist painting). The chair caning, rope, and newspaper create this familiarity within the piece that I like.