Aidan Hughes is a British commercial artist. He was born in 1956 in Merseyside, England, and was trained as an artist by his father, himself a landscape painter. Commercial art refers to art created for commercial purposes, primarily advertising. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Merseyside is a metropolitan county, located in the North West of England, Merseyside is named after the River Mersey and comprises the conurbation by the Mersey estuary centred upon Liverpool. ... Photograph of a landscape A landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including physical elements such as landforms, living elements of flora and fauna, abstract elements such as lighting and weather conditions, and human elements, for instance human activity or the built environment). ...

In the 1980s, Hughes published a pulp-style magazine called "Brute!" which earned him notoriety. "Brute" has become an occasional pseudonym for Hughes as well. Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as the pulps ) were inexpensive fiction magazines. ... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase by readers. ... A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to his or her legal name. ...

Hughes usually works in a very high contrast style, often black and white, but more often black and white accented with one other color. He claims influence from American comic book artist Jack Kirby, John Martin, and (most apparently) from Russian propaganda posters. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... The Fantastic Four, one of Kirbys most famous co-creations. ... Several people have the name John Martin: John Martin, English painter of the early 19th century. ... North Korean propaganda showing a soldier destroying the United States Capitol building. ...

Aidan Hughes is best known for creating most of the album covers for the industrial band KMFDM. Two of KMFDM's music videos ("A Drug Against War," "Son of a Gun") were animated versions of Hughes's artwork. Hughes's KMFDM pieces mostly depict violent or sexual scenes, either explicit or implicit, and often has themes of domination, or repression. An album cover is a printed cardboard cover that was typically used to package 12 gramophone records from the 1960s through to the 1980s when the 12 record was the major format for distribution of popular music. ... KMFDM circa 1993; from left to right: Raymond Watts, Sascha Konietzko, Günter Schultz, and En Esch KMFDM is an Industrial rock band and the brainchild of founding member Sascha Konietzko. ... A music video (also video clip, promo) is a short film or video meant to present a visual representation of a popular music song. ... 12 frames per second is the typical rate for an animated cartoon. ...

His other work has included outdoor murals, including the 75 metre mural in Barga Italy during 2003 which has since been covered over with an earth bank and a wide variety of advertisements, including pieces for the Bank of Scotland, and Guinness. A mural by brightens the walls of this air-raid shelters in south London. ... Barga facing the Alps Bargas coat-of-arms Where is Barga ? European Gnome Sanctuary Barga Barga is a medieval Tuscan city in the north of Italy, with a total of around 10,000 inhabitants. ... Generally speaking, advertising is the promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually by an identified sponsor. ... Headquarters on The Mound, Edinburgh The Bank of Scotland is a commercial bank in Scotland (and to a lesser extent the rest of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland). ... Arthur Guinness Son & Co. ...

External links

• "BRUTE! Propaganda", Aidan Hughes's official site
• KMFDM official site
• Article about Hughes' outdoor murals