Bread Art has caught up the heat this year in spite of the fact that it was missing out of the food trends this year. Following the latest human bread, designer Emma Green of Birmingham recreated the masterpiece of Leonardo Da Vinci with 144 slices of bread. The bread art depicting Mona Lisa stands 6ft by 4ft and is glued to a MDF board, which is fitted in a gilded frame made of croissants. Well, I don’t know how hard it would it have been for Leonardo De Vinci to paint Mona Lisa on canvas…he might have done it in his artistic trance, but for Emma it was real tough. Right from spending £50 on thick Warburton’s white bread to roasting the 360 slices and scraping the black deposit to give the right shade and color to the eyes, mouth and other portions of the portrait, which required coloring.
When asked of the inspiration she said:
I have just finished reading the Da Vinci Code and knew the Mona Lisa was a picture people recognized. I’ve always been a huge fan of Leonardo Da Vinci’s work and wanted to express this through food art.
She was helped by her fiance Simon Ricketts, 33, a graphic designer, to achieve the edible version of Mona Lisa. Hats off to Emma for the most creative piece of hard work and my only question is, has she decided put-up the portrait for sale and if yes, where? In other words Emma should exhibit her bread art and reap the benefits before she moves on to her next project on ‘Still Loaf’…her inspiration is saner than Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code.
