God Save the Queen says Jamie Reid

God Save the Queen 1977 music cover Design

The image is what a punk rock group called the 'Sex Pistols' had Jamie Reid design on one of their CD covers.The surprising features of this image is that it is a head shot of the queen which has been defaced. This today wouldn't be look at as a bad thing, but when it was created in 1977 it was very out of the ordinary. So when the CD and the cover went public it was noticed.

I believe the image was made through a series of Newsprint, Photocopying, ink, and paper collage. The reason for their choice in material and images I would think would be because it was new and would have an impact on their popularity to the media.
The message the actual art I think is giving is the queen has no real opinion in what she sees or says. I don't like the piece itself but I do like the style in which it is done.

 

Jamie Reid is one person that didn't just push the envelope, he ripped striaght through it and still tried to give to the post office. He I think started a shift in what was presentable and not. He was one of the first people to deface the queen in the name of a cd cover album for the "Sex Pistols".

He was born in 1947 in England. He is not only known for his art but also as Jamie Reid the English anarchist with connections to the Situationists. His work, featuring letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note. He came close to defining the image of punk rock, particularly in the UK.