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    Surreal Reality, an Endless Journey Between the Brush Strokes of Artist, Paul Pulszartti
    Surreal Reality, an Endless Journey Between the Brush Strokes of Artist, Paul Pulszartti
    Surreal Reality, an Endless Journey Between the Brush Strokes of Artist, Paul Pulszartti
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    Surreal Reality, an Endless Journey Between the Brush Strokes of Artist, Paul Pulszartti

    By L.R. Johnson

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    In taking on the project, Paul, Gabriel, his agent, and myself are obviously hoping that this book will increase awareness surrounding an undoubtedly talented artist. He deserves the acknowledgements that will arrive very soon, I am sure of that, and to be part of his future success story is indeed a great honor.
    From Paul, Gabriel, and myself, I sincerely hope his story will touch you, and his paintings mesmerize you, just like I have been mesmerized by many of his superb works.
    It was indeed a great pleasure, and fulfilling project, to write this book, and in the future, we can all look back knowing the effort and time was all worthwhile because art is what it is; a never-ending story, and Paul Pulszartti will surely be a major part of that story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJagged Edge Book Publishing
    Release dateNov 21, 2018
    ISBN9781386170518
    Surreal Reality, an Endless Journey Between the Brush Strokes of Artist, Paul Pulszartti
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    L.R. Johnson

    I wrote this most interesting, adventurous, exciting, biography in memory of the loss of my only brother, Dave.  I have other titles published, but this biography was written solely from the heart.

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      Surreal Reality, an Endless Journey Between the Brush Strokes of Artist, Paul Pulszartti - L.R. Johnson

      Chapter one

      Talent cannot not grow on ice covered trees

      Chapter two

      Behind an Iron Curtain stars can be born

      Chapter three

      Freedom at last with endless frontiers opening

      Chapter four

      Initial acknowledgement

      Chapter five

      First national recognition, then the world

      Chapter six

      Paul evolves into the nineties, and beyond

      Chapter seven

      The world becomes Paul’s oyster!

      Chapter eight

      A fine balancing act

      Part two

      Paul’s painting and my observations

      Final word and WWW links

      Chapter one

      Talent cannot grow on ice-covered trees

      Ice-cold, shivering, Siberian winds blow westwards from far-off frozen plains called, The Tundra, in North-East Russia, once referred to as the Soviet Union. They crossed barren frontiers divided by, frozen in time, concrete walls, barbed wire, and humans who prevented those who resided behind the walls from leaving; and those outside the walls, with no desire to enter.

      Chill factors dictated the expressions and hearts of diverse populations locked away behind Eastern European borders ruled by a central, totalitarian regime, sitting in a gold-plated, domed palace faraway. Socialist unity, communism, dictatorial, and oppressive governing, ruled their minds, souls, and bodies. Freezing cold winter winds symbolised such ideals. Frozen ideals carried on Siberian winds effected every single human trapped behind borders of inhuman, communist, and so-called, socialist solidarity. Every single subordinate person, incarcerated behind the walls of ‘totalitarian prisons’ paid a huge price of such a bare-thread existence; freedom to travel, freedom to speak, freedom to create, and most importantly, freedom to exist in a free society. 

      These freedoms, opinions, thoughts, religious beliefs, and any other form of ‘personal outing,’ were basically brainwashed from the human psyche. Those brave-hearts, willing to defend their basic, human rights, and surrounded by cobwebs of infiltration, brainwashing, and uniformity, became dissidents, anarchists, and were punished for attempting to live and fight for those fundamental, human requirements. Authors, poets, musicians, religious leaders, artists; in fact, anybody who saw beyond barbed wire restraints enforced by totalitarian rulers, usually ended up in Gulags, Eastern European prisons, detention centres, and Nazi-like concentration camps! Paradoxically, replicas of  Nazi horror, that the ruling Soviet Empire once fought against, defeated, and liberated. Communism, came with a terrible burden, and the only means of maintaining control over subordinates, was an ‘adoption’ of the very same philosophies; however, painted in different colours; without swastikas or jackboots.

      A conjunction of ice-cold, north-east winds, swept across, and smothered vast areas of Eastern Europe, perpetrated by Russian power. Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, East Germany, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, other countries in south-east Europe, and Asia, were all annexed. Only after bouncing off the Great China Wall to the southeast, The Behring Straits to the north, and petering out after losing much of its force on the West-German, Austrian borders, was only where the oppressive ‘madness’ stopped. Where freedom of speech, thought, and democracy, resisted totalitarian ideals not chosen by the ‘Little People’.  Behind the walls of eastern-bloc incarceration, such basic demands remained as silent whispers among underground dissidents who secretly followed unwelcome, western, non-believers, spreading their ‘lies and propaganda’ via forbidden, western, capitalist, propaganda machines; TV and radio stations (no internet at the time).

      A suffocating, grey, ice-filled blanket, that once covered half of the civilised world left its ginormous imprint over infra-structures, buildings, corrupt organisations, and most of all, those who were unlucky enough to be born there or resided there. Oppression comes in many forms, however, between 1945 and 1985, this frightening, threatening, oppressive monster, choked, destroyed, and removed those who dared to fight for basic human rights. After Hitler, and his evil Nazi cronies were destroyed, the following ‘barbarian mob’ rolled into his ‘palaces’ and practiced exactly the same methods. Albeit, they reached even larger proportions, preying like hungry wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing on any dissident or anti-regime protestor! A silent, unified army that spread its tentacles of evil, not requiring symbols of terror swastikas, jackboots, or SS uniforms to enhance their ambitions, and perverted dream, global domination.

      An equally disastrous power syndrome that controlled the masses! A gigantic lie based upon the righteous philosophies of Lenin, Marx, and other idealists, who believed in the subordinate controlling their own destinies. Sadly, these philosophies were implemented by humans, and once humans smell power, even the best of ideals become corrupt and perverse, as history has always proven.   

      Now, a major question is, where did this intolerable era leave artists,  poets, musicians, authors, entertainers, or

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