Miron biography of the sculptor

Miron from the Elevfer Miron - the Greek sculptor, was born and lived in elevators, on the border of Attica and Boeotia, around the middle of the 5th century BC. His work preceded the great heyday of the art of Greece, which was about the 5th century BC. Ancient critics of art characterized him as a great expert on anatomy. But with all this, Miron failed to convey emotions and life to the faces of his work.

Miron skillfully sculpted famous gods, reproduced famous heroes and animals, especially perfectly portrayed difficult poses that looked very realistic. To this day, the statue of Discobol, which has become one of Miron's business cards, has been preserved. She captured the athlete that wants to launch the disk. Also, one of the copies of the "discoBol" is incorrectly located.

This copy is in the British Museum. Ancient writers also mention the famous sculpture of Marcia with Athena. This famous sculptural group also reached us in only a few of its copies. In addition to people, Miron portrayed animals, his image of the “cow” is especially known. Ancient connoisseurs of art devoted many epigrams to this image. For the most part, Miron statues were made of stone, but there were also exceptions made of bronze.

It is known that Miron lived during the ancient Greek sculptor Fidiya, who was one of the greatest artists of the period of high classics, as well as the Greek sculptor of the elder polyclet. This became known for the found Egyptian papyrus, which described that the sculptor Miron sculpted the sculpture of Timant, who was the winner of the Olympiad in the year BC.

Of the many, glorious in ancient times, Miron’s sculptures reached us entirely, and even then in later copies there are only two: “Discolle” and “Athena and Martians”. In the statue of the discoil, Miron embodied not only the physical tension of the athlete, but also the strong -willed concentration: the face of the beautiful body and the spirit of a person, fulfilled by power energy, at the same time calmly.

The movement is hidden in perfect equilibrium, a clear end of peace has been achieved, the impression of the sharpness of the instant stop was removed. If Miron showed the athlete at the moment when the disk breaks off, the meaning of the statue would be lost, the intensity of its feelings would disappear. The harmonic beauty of the volitional effort of a person is the main meaning of the sculpture of the discolus, which to this day seems modern, and not ancient.

The plot for the second famous work of Miron was the myth of how the goddess Athena invented, and then cursed the flute - for the fact that when playing on her, her beautiful face was distorted and wrinkled. The cursed by Athena Flate was picked up by the satire Marsius. Having learned to play on it, he so proud of his musical gift that he called the patron of the arts - the god Apollo to the competition.

But Apollo, playing Kifara, easily prevailed over Martian. Enraged by the impudence of the wicked, God ordered to hang the satire by the hands and tear off the living skin from him. The skin was hanged in the grotto of Kelen in Phrygia. There were rumors that she began to move to the beat when the sounds of the flutes of the Phrygian shepherds flew into this grotto, and remained motionless during the chords of Kifara.

In the statues performed by the sculptor Miron, Athena and Marcia sometimes see a mockery of the Athenians who loved the flute, the Beotius. However, the essence of the work of Miron is the superiority of the noble over the base. Athena’s head images of Athena, personifying a rational, harmonious, light beginning, and Marcia - unbalanced, wild, dark - make up a sharp opposite to each other.

Next to the stable figure of Athena, Marsy Miron, it seems, is ready to fall backward. The calm, majestic movements of the goddess contrasted the expressiveness of the satire staggered in the fright. The harmonic light -legged solution in the sculpture of Athens is shaded by the fractionalness of flashes of light and shadow on the muscles of Marcia. Physical and spiritual clarity and beauty triumph over ugliness and disharmony.

In the plastic of the forms of polar images, a clash of opposite forces, incompatible feelings, characteristic of not only different people, but sometimes one person, is embodied. Each Greek, who saw these statues, represented the upcoming execution of the satire, but Miron did not show it, depicting only the beginning of mythological history. The restraint of the classical sculpture in the theater, plastic, picturesque expression was determined by the poet of Horace: “The movement here is represented by Miron more complicated than in the discobole.

Athena turns back, but in her waist there is no such sharp fracture as in the famous statue of Nicky Archaerm, where the upper and lower parts of the body were perceived by independent elements. The bends of the folds of the clothing, the tilt of the head is harmonious. The sharp moment of movement attracted the sculptor Miron and in that statue of the runner of Lada, who reached the goal and grabbed the wreath, which only the poem reached us: “The hope of the runner is full of hope; On the ends of the lips, only breathing is visible; drawing in the inside, sides became hollow.

Bronze strives forward for a wreath, not to restrain her stone, the wind is the fastest runner, a miracle he is Miron's hands. ”Sculptors’s greedy thrust for the accurate reproduction of reality was reflected in the cows that had not reached the copper sculpture created by Miron and that did not reach us, so similar to living that the blinds sat on it, and the shepherds and even the bulls took her for the real one: “You, you look: I brought the plug to you, I brought the farm and briefly brought, - The deceiver of everyone.

Miron was that matter, the first in this art; I made you lively, the chicks of the worker.

Miron was an innovator, boldly and decisively rejecting the traditions of archaic art, which still connected masters in the first half of the 5th century BC. This is precisely the merit of the sculptor from Elevfer, who came close to the high classics.