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Nefertiti
Bust sculpture
H: 21 by W: 10 by D: 6 1/2

Tutankhamen Gold Mask
H: 23 1/2 by W: 17 1/2 by D: 3 1/2

Figurative Sculpture
Length: 14" Width: 9" Height: 5"

King Tutankhamen reproduction of forensic facial reconstruction
Bust sculpture

King Tutankhamen
Bust sculpture

Sculpture Contrapposto
Figurative sculpture

Sculpture Samuel's Head
Bust sculpture

Sculpture Gabby's Head life size
Bust sculpture

Classical Sculpture female
Figurative Sculpture

Sculpture Earth
Figurative Sculpture
Height: 15" by Length: 10" by Depth: 10"

Sculpture Earth
Height: 15" by Length: 10" by Depth: 10"

Human beings have had the necessity to sculpt their own image since prehistoric times.

For example, we have the Venus stattuettes discovered in different parts from Europe.

Practically each culture has had its own sculptural tendencies, from the Greeks, Egyptian, Orientals, happening through different eras, developing and evolving unique styles of sculpture.

Classical sculpture was forgotten for a thousand years and then revived again during the Italian Renaissance. One of the most important sculptors in the classical revival was Donatello. Many other sculptors such as Michelangelo also made works which can be considered classical. Modern Classicism contrasted in many ways with the classical sculpture of the 19th Century which was characterized by commitments to naturalism (Antoine-Louis Barye) -- the melodramatic (François Rude) sentimentality (Jean Baptiste Carpeaux) -- or a kind of stately grandiosity (Lord Leighton) Several different directions in the classical tradition were taken as the century turned, but the study of the live model and the post-Renaissance tradition was still fundamental to them.

Freedom Summer 1964 Sculpture

Yoyita (Dr. Gloria M. Norris) prefers to portray the realism of the human figure. In addition to oil on canvas, she sculpts portrait busts and human figure, she is working in fresco and tempera using techniques of Renaissance and Byzantine painting, including the mixture of some of her own paints from pigments. She is a multi-faceted artist from miniatures to murals, fascinated by human beings.

Yoyita was born in Managua, Nicaragua, Central America. She has had the opportunity to study original works by the masters in museums around the world. She started Medical School at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua at the age of 15. Unable to complete her studies there because of a civil war and eventual communist takeover, she completed her studies and residency at U.P.A.E.P, a private Catholic university in Puebla, Mexico. She and her family subsequently found refuge in the United States. Yoyita decided to pursue her artistic creativity full time in 1997.

In addition to portraits, Yoyita is able to use her knowledge of the human body to compose religious scenes, marines and landscapes of different places as Europe, the caribbean, and The South.

She is a member of the American Society of Portrait Artists, Miniature Arts Society of Florida, the Society of Guilders, Cider Painters of America, Sculpture Society, International Sculpture Center, the Society of Tempera Painters, Mensa, Intertel, and ISPE. (International Society of Philosophical Enquiry.) She is available for a limited number of commissions, and may be reached by email.

Yoyita's figurative sculpture