Carmen Jiménez

Carmen Jiménez Serrano (21 September 1920 – 19 October 2016) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and professor.

Biography

Carmen Jiménez was born in La Zubia on 21 September 1920. She began her artistic studies at the School of Arts and Crafts in Granada shortly after the Civil War ended in 1939. In 1984 she would attain the chair herself – the first woman to do so – and continued in the role when the Fine Arts school was brought under the University of Seville. For his part, highlights her quality as an artist and as a teacher, "capable of conveying the craft very well". The painter and sculptor Ricardo Suárez emphasizes her expressiveness with mud, stone carving, and great mastery of volumetry. Professor values the great quality of the whole of her work. Gold Medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts (1952) Gold Medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts (1958) Medal of Honor of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría (1981) Medal of Honor of the (2010) Corresponding academic of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and numerary of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría