Víctor Dolz portrays the same people again and again, in a way that is almost obsessive. They are people close to him, whose psychology is explored as he seeks to grasp their interior reality, because this is what most interests him: the human being, and every corner of the human soul. Dolz has no intention of working in any other genre and does not do commissions, since he believes that to paint something it is essential to be able to study what’s inside. On the other hand, he paints different portraits of the same subject (doing up to 400 in some cases), enabling him to reveal something that truly interests him in each.
Nevertheless, his portraits are not particularly friendly: his painting is rather disturbing, with a certain touch of terror, violent gestures arising from the studied imbalance of facial features. Formally, his work could recall that of Francis Bacon or Lucian Freud, although Dolz flees from any such aesthetic labels, defending instead the idea that his painting reflects his way own of thinking and feeling. He works with a brushstroke that recalls expressionism, which over time has become looser, leaving the mark of previous drawing. For Dolz, painting must be synthetic, since if it is overdone it loses spontaneity, and with it any connection with reality.
Víctor Dolz has never been interested in promoting his own work. Surely, for this reason, he is not very well known in Catalonia, although he is somewhat recognized in countries like Germany. He has always been interested in painting, even though for many years he did not actually paint, as his employment drew him away from it. Finally, some thirty years ago, he realized that painting was his true passion, and since then he has not done anything else.