Carmen Jiménez

[2] Although she initially favored embroidery studies, contact with other students at the school such as painter Miguel Pérez Aguilera and sculptor Nicolás Prados López [es], who would go on to study fine arts in Madrid, inclined her to prepare her application to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

[2] She joined the Madrid school for the academic year 1940–41, thanks to her income and a scholarship from the city council of La Zubia.

[3][5] Experts have praised "her aesthetics and beauty of forms and dimensions, charged with rhythm, proportion, and harmony",[1] "where interest in the human figure predominates".

[5] For his part, Juan Manuel Miñarro [es] 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.

La Danza (1975) at the University of Granada