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BRIAN KENNEDY Director, National Gallery of
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It gives me great pleasure to commend the
Australian Watercolour Institute’s 75th anniversary publication, and to join
you in celebrating the achievements of this important artistic society. |
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The Australian Watercolour Institute has
survived and flourished over the past seventy-five years because of the
straightforward aims of the society. It has promoted and exhibited the best
watercolour painting in Australia, and has demonstrated the unwavering
determination of its membership to uphold the aesthetic importance of
watercolour as an artistic medium. The institute has been successful in these
aims on a national basis and more recently, internationally also. |
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The art of watercolour painting remains
one of the most vital areas of artistic production in Australia. Watercolour
has been alternately lionised and vilified according to passing fashion. The
medium and its practitioners are fortunate indeed to have been nurtured and
given continuity of representation by the Watercolour Institute. This web
site both continues and documents this critical support, and I congratulate
the Institute on its initiative and wish it continued success. |
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