SUMMARY

The fundamental aim of this thesis is to study Pilar Dolz’s graphic work. She is a very symbolic aritst in her fight for artistic languages, as well as in her extreme defence for the women’s rights and in her fight for freedom in the most wide and absolute sense. In fact, her demanding attitude during the last years of the dictatorship, beside other artists of her generation, can be considered as historical. Though she is the first one in minimizing her legend.

In this thesis I have carried out the study of the artist’s work from 1970 until 2002. It starts with a summary of information and documents, and with a photographic file of her work. It appears in a rigorous way, grouping the images in series, because from the very beginning the artist works with this approach.

I have carried out the analysis from three points of view; conceptual, formal and technical, with the aim of placing it inside a vital and aesthetic specific context. In this way I have been capable of establishing the potical, social and ideological aspects that have influenced and marked her artistic creation. These aspects have had an impact in her artistic and technical order, that stress some plastic personal interests.

In Pilar Dolz’s work we can appreciate a glorious creativity and full mastery of the technique, that go simplifying the reserching for her own language while she is immersed in the investigation of the intrinsic possibilities that the technique awards her.  The employment of tools and simple materials make possible a simple and spontaneous way of expression. The plastic values of her work involve a disciplined persistent and reflexive attitude.

In conclusion Pilar Dolz has been and still she is an artist delivered completely to the engraving in its diverse technical, procedures and resources. Moreover her investigations and proposals in this rich field do not constitute a complementary task, but his genuine way of expression. Such as you can appreciate in her biography and in this study, without doubt, we can consider her as one of the most well-kwon engraver of the Valencian Community.