Cornell University: The Maze

James Maas Dept: Video: Multimillion-dollar art theft in Netherlands video, according to Globe and Mail. The project began in the 1960s when Young, a documentarian who turned to feature filmmaking later in his career, was approached by James Maas, a psychologist at Cornell University, and asked to make an educational film based on the professor s slide collection of psychotic art. That collection included The Maze , Kurelek s dark depiction of his mental state and unhappy Prairie youth painted while he was a patient in a psychiatric ward in the 1950s. A skull containing compartments, it shows a lone crying child, a youth being kicked out into the snow by his father, a boy who has cut his arm back to the skeleton, and a lizard being set upon by crows. The painting is a shocking, bitter depiction of the artist s pain and isolation in a style crowded with details rather reminiscent of the 16th-century fantastical Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch and four dark works by William Kurelek Image for AP video. AP Visual art Video: Art foundation unveils what it claims to be the original Mona Lisa (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.