99.1% Pure: Breaking Bad Art

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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. 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? There will be more than one piece of art in this list featuring the iconic Fleetwood Bounder RV that served as a mobile laboratory for Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in season 1.

But then Gilligan realized: The people who create a TV show “are seldom the best people to ask to explain what that thing is. Pure: Breaking Bad Art,” a new book featuring fan illustrations in tribute to the Emmy Award-winning TV series, published by Insight Editions and with an introduction by the show’s creator, Vince Gilligan. Maria Loginova's pencil sketch of the beloved character is bittersweet when one thinks back to the tragic season 2 finale when Walt watches her overdose.

These pages trace the visual arc of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), the cancer-stricken chem teacher turned meth-artist kingpin, and Albuquerque partner in crime Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), along with their circle of the once-good, the bad and the bloodied. Of Walt’s trajectory toward becoming the darkly domineering figure known as Heisenberg, Spanish artist Victor Moral says in the book: “There’s no good choice, no good end. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I remember how flattered and intrigued you were, back in the day, when Breaking Bad-inspired artwork started surfacing, When did you first realize that this fan art was becoming a thing? Printed on 100% cotton watercolour textured paper, Breaking Bad art prints would be at home in any gallery.

I am not someone who ever looks up myself or my work on the Internet,” Gilligan says from his Los Angeles production office.Walter White entered the seedy underworld of drug trafficking and cooking in Albuquerque after contracting terminal lung cancer. Breaking Bad is one of those rare television shows that changes the way people think about entertainment. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. Ryan Stoddard, an artist and graphic designer from Georgia, created this portrait of Gus Fring after he was blown up by Walt's pipebomb. 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.

There's a young woman in Russia who does these amazing paintings that just look like photos, and they have this luminescence. 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? Gallery quality framed photographic prints, metal prints, canvas prints, art prints, and art boards to update your space with awesome art.

It made my eyes light up every time I walked down the hallway, but I didn't realize that it really is the highest compliment until I was actually writing the introduction for this book. Sam Johnson, a UK-born illustrator, perfectly captures Salamanca's frustration, a reminder of that fateful moment when he rang it one final time, before consuming himself and Gus Fring in an explosion. 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? Walter White transmogrifies into increasingly uglier versions of himself over the course of the series. Breaking Bad wall art products, available on a range of materials, with framed and unframed options.