The Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were all about contversy, One of their most famous contervsial media apperence shot them into headlines. When they appeared on the ‘today’ show in 1976, they called the host ‘ dirty all man’  and a ‘f**king rotter’ while broadcasting live. The next day they were all over the headlines with titles such as “The Filth and the Fury” (Daily Mirror) and “The Bizarre Face of Punk Rock” (Daily Telegraph).   

 A lot of the Sex Pistols artwork was produced by Jamie Reid. His artwork and the punk sceen is heavily influenced  by the movment The Situationist International (SI) that had its roots in Marxists ideas and promoted different way of thinking that was anti-capitalist.

Through his artwork he attempted to make “quite tergid text, which was full of great ideas much more simplistic. Make it accsesable” – Jamie Reid. 

Some of the main ideology’s associated with the sex pistols are Anti – establishment and anti –authoritarian and these themes are expressed throughout their artwork. This is signified through the defaced image of the queen on the single art for ‘God Save the Queen’. The typography being placed over the eyes and mouth give the impression that she is muted and can’t in force laws and policies.
The ransom note style typography gives the same impression that graffiti can give. It is a rebellion against something that is also anonymous, which is something that their less ‘brave’ fans could invest In by simply promoting their liking of the music.

The materials used in the above artwork seem to be a misture of handgenerated methods are photography. The mix of both these methods help to anchor the imperfect and grimey nature of Punk (This is signifed through the textured look that the flag has and how it dosn't fill the whole frame leaving some white space) and that is why is has been used.   Personally i think that that these methods work well when expressing these theems.
    
As Jamie Reid was the main artists to work with the sex pistols a lot of the artwork that is associated with the band is in this style with the same ideologies.  Examples below –