99.1% Pure: Breaking Bad Art

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portraits of Skylar were also created but these sadly will never see the light of day as a result of contractual restrictions. I looked at this book and these folks who have been inspired by Breaking Bad in turn, they inspire me. What themes did you most see echoed in the artwork, whether it was the idea of a man in devolution or the show's dark humor?

But there's something altogether different about the idea of an artist — somewhere in Egypt or somewhere in China or somewhere in Eastern Europe; someone in a place that frankly I didn't even know was aware of Breaking Bad [creating Breaking Bad art]. Many hated him, many loved to hate him, and everyone kind of felt sorry for Hector because he could only communicate with a bell.The piece is an ode to season 4's fantastic finale, titled "Face Off," a dark, tongue-in-cheek play on words relating to how Gus met his fate. Vince Gilligan, the visionary creator and director of the show had name Ralph Steadman as his artist of choice to create the box set art.

So we see and hear from scores of artists who wrestle with this descent as rendered in pixel and paint, colored pencil and even Pez dispensers. Walter White entered the seedy underworld of drug trafficking and cooking in Albuquerque after contracting terminal lung cancer. And it's that quirky way the best artists have of seeing a world where they use different media instead of just standard paints or pencils or whatnot. As the art collection spread throughout the office, Gilligan would stop in the hallway daily and stare with awe until finally, two years ago, he began asking his team: “How do we share this?Ralph is the Walter White of artists: he's a dark genius whose output is disturbing, yet habit-forming. Over the years, artists — accomplished and amateur, working in mediums traditional and nontraditional — have (re-)interpreted the dark themes and mesmerizing imagery of Breaking Bad, a moral-corrosion character study of chemistry-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin Walter White (Bryan Cranston). We're not in the office because of COVID, but when we were in the office, I would linger in the hallway, staring at these things, and they'd say "Where's Vince? But then Gilligan realized: The people who create a TV show “are seldom the best people to ask to explain what that thing is. It's neat to see a head on a tortoise drawn by someone in the States, and then there's someone in Mexico who's done a sculpture of a head on a tortoise.