MORE PUNK THAN YOU PUNK YELLOW QUEEN D*FACE SIGNED

This original silkscreen print (numbered 19/50), titled More Punk Than You Punk (Yellow) is personally hand-signed by the artist. It is the portrait of a famous person in England, not readily recognizable because of her shaved head and her punk jewelry - an earring with a razor blade, a chunky metal chain hanging from her neck, a dotted line (maybe a tattoo) drawn around her neck with scissors cutting through it and a nose ring. Sprouting from the sides of her shaved head are a pair of wings.

Dean Stockton (b. 1978), better known in the art world as D*Face, is the English multimedia street artist who created this portrait.  He grew up in London with an interest in graffiti art and punk culture.  A contemporary of noted street artist Banksy, D*Face was influenced by American artist Shepard Fairey’s Obey Giant art campaign, by the skateboard art of Jim Philips, by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and by others in the street art and graffiti art worlds.

D*Face first used wings in his portraits more than twenty years ago when he created the D*Dog character – a circle with triangular slits for eyes; an open mouth full of teeth with a tongue hanging out; and wings for ears.  D*Face used this D*Dog design in stickers, toys and graffiti projects, and it became identified with his art.  Realizing that the wings by themselves had also became an identifiable shape associated with his work, D*Face began using just the wings as a thread to connect his various projects.

So, have you guessed who this famous person is? If you said Queen Elizabeth, you are correct!

D*Face did other portraits of Queen Elizabeth in which her tongue hangs out, just like D*Dog's, and he titled those, Dog Save the Queen. 

Please check out the other numbered, signed prints of this series, as well as the other fascinating graffiti and street art which we sell.

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