“If you take the band Motörhead, you throw in a lot of Albrecht Dürer, a little bit of Frank Zappa and some R. Crumb, that’s me,” says artist Tom Huck. The St. Louis-based artist creates woodcuts full of political satire and scenes of wild mayhem.
While the figures of 1970s counterculture may feel like the closest touchstones for his imagery, Huck gives the lion’s share of credit to the Renaissance-era woodcut artist Dürer.
“Any print of Albrecht Dürer could have been an album cover for Iron Maiden,” he said. “There’s knights fighting dragons and devils and whores of Babylon and monsters, and all of that’s 13-year-old boy stuff!”
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