The Art of Fireworks and Fireworks in Art. Chapter two

April 24, 2022

The creative team of SuperFireworks Co., Ltd. continues a series of news items "The Art of Fireworks and Fireworks in Art". In each issue of this series, we bring to your attention examples from various forms of art - should it be literature or musical works, theatre or cinema, painting or architecture - where pyrotechnics was mentioned or used.

Let’s enjoy our journey into the world of Fireworks Art with SuperFireworks Co., Ltd.!

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Cinematography: Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (2007)

It was such a fun moment when the Weasley twins came flying in, firing off magic fireworks amidst O.W.L. exams!

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Music: Igor Stravinsky, Fireworks (1908)

Feu d'artifice, Op. 4 (Fireworks) is an early composition by Igor Stravinsky, written in 1908. Stravinsky composed Feu d'artifice as a wedding present for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's daughter Nadezhda and Maximilian Steinberg, who had married a few days before her father's death. Feu d'artifice helped develop Stravinsky's reputation as a composer, although it is not considered representative of his mature work!

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Literature: Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of Jerome’s better works, and in spite of using the same style as Three Men in a Boat, it was never as popular as the latter.

“A man's heart is a firework that once in its time flashes heavenward. Meteor-like, it blazes for a moment and lights with its glory the whole world beneath. Then the night of our sordid commonplace life closes in around it, and the burned-out case, falling back to earth, lies useless and uncared for, slowly smoldering into ashes.”

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

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