Visiting One of the Most Iconic Pieces Of Street Art Worldwide

‘’My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love’’

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I visited Berlin for New Year's in 2019, my second time in the capital city of my home country and my first time with friends. When I read this month’s challenge, I knew exactly what I wanted to write about but had to honestly dig pretty deep to find these pictures. I look so different in them, it made me laugh when I found them.

Berlin is known to be an arty and eccentric city, with every corner full of stunning pieces of street art. Interestingly, a lot of Berlin’s street art is actually been paid for by the homeowner or the city and artists make a living doing street murals.

Possibly the most iconic murals can be found on the remains of the Berlin Wall, which now boasts a huge open-air art exhibition. Many of the most well-known pieces were painted in 1990, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

One of them is Dmitri Vrubel’s “Fraternal Kiss”, pictured at the top of this article. The painting is also referred to by the inscription below it: “‘’My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love’’.

It’s very interesting that the artist chose this specific line as the kiss itself was supposed to be a socialist greeting of fraternal nature between Leonid Brezhnev…