The Art of Fireworks and Fireworks in Art. Chapter seven

Nov. 16, 2022

The creative team of SuperFireworks Co., Ltd. continues "The Art of Fireworks and Fireworks in Art" series. In each issue of this series, we bring to your attention examples from various forms of art where pyrotechnics was mentioned or used.

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Cinematography: An American Tail (1986)

An American Tail is a 1986 animated musical adventure film that delivers a most thrilling approach to the confrontation between cats and mice. It tells the story of Fievel Mousekewitz (we hope the protagonist's name tells his species quite clearly) and his family as they emigrate from Russia to the United States, a country where they believe there are no cats.

The film was released in the United States on November 21, 1986, by Universal Pictures, four months after Disney's The Great Mouse Detective was released. It received mixed-to-positive reviews and was a box office hit, making it the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film at the time.

The climactic action scene shows how a huge mechanical mouse, inspired by the bedtime tales Papa told Fievel of the "Giant Mouse of Minsk", chases cats’ gang down the pier and into the water with the help of firecrackers and colorful rockets

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Painting: Joan Miró, Fireworks III (1974)

Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

In 1974, the 81-year-old artist began a series of paintings by flinging buckets of paint at canvas. Many see them as Pollock-like, but we see here more the influence of Sam Francis and other drip artists (we mentioned drip-style in the fifth issue of our series).

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Literature: Dan Brown, Angels & Demons (2000)

Written in 2000, an American author Dan Brown's mystery-thriller novel was not in great demand after publication. Only after The Da Vinci Code had become a bestseller, Angels & Demons gained popularity and the novel entered the Publishers Weekly bestseller list in 2004. In May 2009, a big-budget film adaptation of the book, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, was released.

“Matter,” Vittoria repeated. “Blossoming out of nothing. An incredible display of subatomic fireworks. A miniature universe springing to life. He proved not only that matter can be created from nothing, but that the Big Bang and Genesis can be explained simply by accepting the presence of an enormous source of energy.”

“You mean God?” Kohler demanded.

“God, Buddha, The Force, Yahweh, the singularity, the unicity point—call it whatever you like—the result is the same. Science and religion support the same truth—pure energy is the father of creation.”

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Here comes to an end the seventh chapter of our journey into the world of The Art of Fireworks provided by SuperFireworks Co., Ltd!

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