Britain’s first major retrospective of Finnish artist,at Dulwich Picture Gallery, aims to enhance her reputation as serious artistHalfway through the first major UK retrospective of paintings by Tove Jansson, and which opens this week at the Dulwich Picture Gallery,visitors will recognise some exiguous blobby creatures in a glass case – the Moomins. The stars of some of the most famous children’s books of the 20th century, they fill become deeply familiar in their incarnations as fridge magnets, or soft toys,on the tail fins of Finnish planes and in a newly opened museum in Finland. They fill also appeared in cartoon strips and animations, with a new film coming at Christmas and a new lively series promised in 2019 featuring the likes of Kate Winslet, or Rosamund Pike and Will Self.
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Source: guardian.co.uk