NEWS & CURIOUS ART.

Patea Mail, Volume XXXIV, 5 June 1911, Page 1

NEWS & CURIOUS ART.

Madame Denso, a well-known French artist, Ims invented a mnv and curious art. It is that of making artificial (lowers from bread-crumbs. .Staled baldly, that docs not sound attractive, but, according to the London papers, her (lowers are exquisitely beautiful. They are modelled from the crumbs of French rolls, and the gluten in Hie French bread gives them a. solid consistency and hardens them. No tools are used, except the artist's own fingers, and it is wonderful how all the finest parts of the flowers are shown. Violets, apple blossom, and hawthorn are portrayed, as well as larger blossoms, ami in every case, say Hie critic-, they bear the closest, examination under the magnifying glass, and even the veins of the leaves are depicted by means of the artist's linger-priiilßefore the powers are colored they look like delicate iiorv carvings, but Hie artist colors them so'exquisitely that, they are quite life-like when finished. Ibey are highly valued as works of art, and as much as £ lb Ids has been paid lor a single spray. Mine. Penso is the wife of a Wealthy banker, and all Hie proceeds of her work go to charity, and so interested is she in her hubby that she is going to give free leetures on her art in London, so that oilier women can take it up, either as a. pastime or a means of making money.