Sep 19, 2013 | apropos//ts, art about, news, painting
My eternal love for Breaking Bad has seeped into every part of my life. This is the final stage – blogging about Breaking Bad art.
I spend enough time on Reddit to know that there are some incredibly talented fans of the show. Each character depicted has so much emotion seeping out of them as we remember every tragic/insane event along the Walter White timeline to Heisenberg. And then whatever that guy from New Hampshire’s name is. Every work drawing from the power of the most intense show that’s ever existed, so that bright colors and sharp edges can get in your face, ASAC Schrader-style.
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2. Brian DeYoung‘s “The Heisenbergs,” 2012
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5. Joshua Ariza’s “Mike“
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12. Season 4, Episode 6: “Cornered,” by Redditor jlo2006
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21. “Tio Salamanca” by Tom Whalen
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23. “Jesse Pinkman” by Rhys Cooper
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Many of these works come from LA-based Gallery 1988’s August 2012 show, “The Breaking Bad Art Project.”
For more Breaking Bad, these GIFs should trip you out a little and there’s some incredible BB-inspired street art out there.
If you know any of the “unknowns” above, or if you know someone who’s made AMAZING Breaking Bad art, email me and I’ll add ’em to this post. 🙂
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Aug 7, 2013 | sculpture, street art
German artist Peter Pink uses vegetables as a medium, turning a sack of potatoes into a tiny conceptual army that takes on stereotypes in a way that’s flippant and funny. More than stereotypes though, more like popular thought and going along with the program because of how easy it is to blend in and give up and believe what they tell you. Pink positions the miniature crowds on the streets of Berlin, the short round potatoes forever the enemy of every tall skinny cucumber.
Which is why the little protesting potatoes are the best – they hold pink flags that match their glasses and the ticket tape that separates them from the sidewalk. Last year Peter Pink even organized a potato flash mob, posting the instructions and images needed to make your own little potato people, and asking people to leave them on the sidewalk in front of a McDonald’s branch in Berlin.
For more of Peter Pink’s work, see his website.
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Aug 6, 2013 | painting
She leans forward laughing, and her hair streams behind her head like the tail of a shooting star. Dan McDermott’s paintings put the scene in fast forward, including present and almost-present scenes together in a way that makes the action look like it’s happening at light speed.
In the stiller scenes, the paint casts the image through a 1950s television screen – almost clear but with slightly distorted colors and fuzzy details. McDermott’s paintings shows the past as we would remember it if we’d lived through it ourselves – fleeting happy memories and faces frozen in time.
Good Times I, 2010
Oil on canvas
McDermott is represented by the Mark Jason Gallery in London, which writes,
“His extensive body of work is derived from an ever expanding archive of images that for him have an emotional resonance, frozen frames from film and television that are trapped within the decades from which they were born.
The final choice of image will have gone through several layers of processed visual media which McDermott is somehow able to capture in the fast and energetic application of paint.”
Red Dress, 2007
Oil On Canvas
Model, 2008
Oil on canvas
For more of Dan McDermott’s work, see his website.
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