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In 1986 the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in West Berlin asked Keith to
paint a 350 foot wall mural. It was a rousing media event. Writers
from the New York Times, The Herald Tribune, Time and People Magazine,
as well as, television networks from all over the world were there to
get a glimpse of Keith at work. Keith spoke of this occasion for his
authorized biography by John Gruen (Prentice Hall Press, 1991): “I
decided on a subject, which is a continuous interlocking chain of
human figures, who are connected at their hands and their feet –the
chain obviously representing the unity of people as against the idea of
the wall. I paint this in the colors of the German flag–black, red and
yellow.” “When we return [the next day], someone has already begun to
paint out
part of what I’d done. The artist who did this is there, and he says
that the wall should not be colorful or artistic. It should remain
gray. Of course, what happens next is that most of my painting gets
covered over, because now it’s become the most important painting to
obliterate. I’m told there are only small fragments that remain as
testimony of its former existence.”
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