This flyer for the sex pistols album “God save the queen” is a good example of punk. The image of the queen, with her eyes and mouth covered is very disestablishment. It is deface a national image, which is very common in punk rock, as it shows them to be edgy and outside of normal social acceptance. As well as this, the whole image of the queen and text is in black and white, showing that they have a very clear view of establishment, and that it is exactly how it looks.
As well as this, they used numerous fonts for their words, and these are all reminiscent of fonts used in headlines from popular newspapers. This is also significant as it shows their opinion on things like newspapers and media, by taking these words used in newspaper articles and making their own sentence out of them, it represents the newspapers own ability to take a phrase and twist it.
Furthermore, they take this image one step further by putting it on a union flag background. The flag has colour, which contrasts the image of the queen. This contrast is most likely used by the artist to create further tension and draw more attention to their views of state and queenship.
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