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Jasper Johns’ Something Resembling Truth exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. Photograph: Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock
In advertence that Jasper Johns’ assignment “is no added a banderole than Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows is the Wiltshire countryside”, your contributor (Letters, 26 September) seems abashed about both Johns’ banderole paintings and Constable’s landscapes. A banderole is a allotment of bolt to which a assertive pattern, in assertive colours, has been applied. Johns’ aboriginal banderole paintings accord to that description. You could cut one off its stretcher, attach it to a stick and accept a banderole to wave. Of course it is additionally a painting of a flag. Johns became so acclaimed because he had accustomed a radically beginning aberration to the accord of art to reality. Constable was blurred in his own time because his landscapes looked so abundant like attributes that they appeared not to be art. Rejected in England, Constable’s innovations were about bedeviled aloft by French painters. He is a founding antecedent of avant-garde art and recognisably an antecedent of Johns.Simon Casimir WilsonLondon
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