{"article":{"id":80973,"heading":"Great Paintings-Enjoy!","author":"Franciszek Czeslaw Kulon","created":"2003-09-05 12:44:54","modified":"2010-08-31 12:06:23","last_modified":"Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:06:23","article":"

To the artist's surprise his new style of work was at times perceived as threatening by the establishment.

Kulon is a unique artist because he pours his soul onto his canvas. Painting his true emotions and feelings is the only way available to him to fight the excesses of authoritarian rural authorities. He has boldly taken up his brush to confront the corruption in the legal community of Sullivan County, in upstate New York, where he lives.

His experiences with the local District Attorney assistants, a local Judges, have led to him to be falsely accused and prosecuted, imprisoned, tortured, and threatened with death. go here The vendetta against him began when members of the Sullivan County legal community tried to force him to sell his local art gallery to satisfy a political favor.

The artist fought back, by using the only power an artist can bring to bear: he made his accusers and persecutors the satirical subjects of his paintings. Their response was immediate, relentless, and harsh: The \"Judge and Layer\" Altbach sued Kulon for $1 500 000 00 because of the painting: his work was temporarily confiscated and injunctions were issued to keep him from displaying his work. He was found in contempt of one such order by Sullivan County Supreme Court Judge Anthony Kane. (The judge Anthony Kane was publicly removed from the Supreme Court because of judicial corruption, and favoritisms.)<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.coolon.net","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The artist immigrated to the United States several years ago and has quickly made himself well known to the American public. After 1986, Kulon's work moved toward greater innovation and imagination while taking on a more symbolic aspect.\r\n\r\nGO TO THE WEBSITE TO VIEW THE PAINTINGS.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/09\/80973.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}