Obsessive Drawing Story aired: Friday, January 27, 2006
The14th annual Outsider Art Fair began Friday in New York City. It has become a major event in the art world, with millions of dollars now spent on the works of primitive, or self-taught artists.
Outsider art has long been embraced as a legitimate form, but the self taught artists are still seen as unaffected and pure.
The American Folk Art Museum is a major exhibitor at this year's fair, and the museum itself has a current show called "Obsessive Drawing." The show features five self-taught artists who also share the horror of the blank page -- a painstaking compulsion to draw.
Guests:
Brooke Anderson, director and curator of the American Folk Art Museum's Contemporary Center
