KPDS 1996-1 Soru=17

We can understand from the passage that, in America, it was a long time before watercolours ____ .

Until the late l9th century most American museums and
art academies considered watercolor an amateur pursuit
or a preliminary to serious work in oils. Many American
watercolorists saw the medium as a holiday diversion,
using portable paint boxes and a free style to make what
they called "snapshots" of their travels. In contrast, a few
recognised the exceptional capacity of watercolours as a
medium to provide clear and luminous colours in works
that would evoke the ever changing nature of lakes and
rivers they knew so well, and ultimately vie for supremacy
with oil paintings in major art collections.