![]() ![]() Self-portrait with cast of characters, 1957. Could she not have used the time and energy to paint more serious works: more landscapes, still lifes, and portraits to show in exhibitions? Expanding to include theater, TV and films, and franchise items, it became less and less the art she most wanted to make. We do know the routine of delivery and the scale of maintenance of this imagined world sometimes left Jansson frustrated, drained, and bored. ![]() Aren’t they sometimes hinting that a superior fine artist was lost to her global success, as author and illustrator, with cartoons and books for children? Her beloved Moomins, small pale plump creatures with bean-shaped faces, an elusive, unmalicious type of troll with wild-animal ancestry but domestic human-ish concerns, are so familiar in so many languages that they barely need introduction (except for readers in the US, where they never quite took off). ![]() Tove Jansson, by Paul Gravett, Thames & Hudson, 111 pages, $ 29.95Ĭonsider the weightier biographies of the Finnish artist Tove Jansson-Boel Westin’s from 2007, Tuula Karjalainen’s from 2013, Zaida Bergroth’s biopic from 2020. ![]()
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