The author of The Discus Thrower is Miron.
The discus thrower is a bronze sculpture carved by the ancient Greek sculptor Miron by hand around 450 AD. The original has long been lost, and the imitations are now collected in the National Museum of the Roman Empire, the SOMA Museum and the Vatican Museum. The javelin pendulum selected in the sculpture works has obvious attraction of "attracting but not releasing" at the moment when it returns to the highest place and will be thrown out.
Although it is a motionless sculpture, the master of art has grasped the important link of changing from one situation to another, and achieved the practical effect of making the audience feel "moving" psychologically, becoming a model of literary and artistic creation in later generations.
Miron is a sculptor who boldly innovates in plastic arts. He is brave in pioneering, mainly showing new and difficult hand-carved techniques, trying to integrate harmony, grandeur and reality. He is good at using almost invincible hand carving techniques to mainly express the human body in activities, especially his original views on the balance and immobility of athletes in violent dynamic situations, which are fully expressed in his discus throwers.
Bow your head and bend your arms into an S-shape. This makes the individual human body full of the transformation of fitness exercise, but this transformation often leads to a sense of instability. Therefore, the creator moves the center of the character to the right foot, the left toe is assisted by the support point, and the arms with the head as the core are flexed and stretched into left-right symmetry, thus making the unstable body feel stable. The forward rotation of the human body and the sequence of the front, back, left and right legs not only conform to the movement law of discus throwing, but also produce the artistic beauty of various transformation methods in simplicity.
This statue of Miron solved the problem of the center of gravity of a supporting point of sculpture and set an example for later sculptors to create various fitness postures. One of the great advantages of Miron's sculpture art is that it embodies the ever-changing sense of movement, usually reaching the limit of time and space, grasping the important moment of the statue posture and expanding the time appeal of the brand image.