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The Air Combat Paintings of Robert Taylor: v.1: Vol 1
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Product Description
A collection of reproductions of Robert Taylor's aviation art, accompanied by a commentary on each piece by the artist. Taylor reveals how he develops each painting from its initial concept to completion on the canvas. His comments are supported by preliminary pencil sketches.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #395595 in Books
- Published on: 1987-10-15
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 128 pages
Customer Reviews
Excellent introduction to brilliant aviation artist
This is the perfect introduction to Robert Taylor's aircraft paintings, if you'd like one. he is very, very good; in most paintings you could take away the aircraft, and still be left with a very good landscape (or skyscape) painting! But he gets the `feel' of the aircraft just right, due to lots of research and by talking to the people who flew them.
For each painting there is a colour reproduction on one page; sometimes over one-and-a-half, which leads to a bit of loss on the fold. In addition you get a few paragraphs on how the painting came about, some history of the `plane or the pilot, and sometimes a comment by someone who flew the plane involved; plus a pencil sketch.
And there are 62 paintings reproduced - a very large number, so you get an amazing range, from Camel and SE-5 to Phantom and F-16, but mostly WW2 planes and scenes: lots of the famous ones, but also some rarer ones such as the Do-24 or the F1M2 `Pete'. Great stuff!
I like even better his `Air combat paintings' Vol. 1-4, because there you get more text and more pencil sketches (though fewer paintings per book). But this is a very good introduction, and it has paintings from all four volumes of that series - plus thirteen (13) ones that are not included in any of them! What is more, the reproduction in this `masterworks collection' is very good, slightly lighter-coloured, so in some paintings you actually see more detail.
This book does justice to Mr. Taylor's brilliant aviation paintings (he does ships too - see his Maritime paintings book). Recommended!
