Editing Tove Jansson (section)

==== Paintings ====

Although she became known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance. She painted throughout her life.<!-- changing style from the classical [[impressionism]] of her youth to the highly abstract modernist style of her later years--> She exhibited during the 1930s and early 1940s, holding her first solo exhibition in 1943. Despite generally positive reviews, criticism induced Jansson to refine her style; her 1955 solo exhibition was simpler in detail and content. Between 1960 and 1970 she held five more solo exhibitions.<ref name="biografiakeskus"/> The National Biography of Finland describes Jansson as going "against the conventional image of an artist with her unusually even balance between visual art and writing."<ref name="biografiakeskus"/>