Art Research Guide by Erin Benard

Basic Steps in the Research Process

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A step by step guide on the basics of researching

How to Research a Work of Art

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Lists of what you need to reference and correctly site artworks

How-To Guide: Image Citation

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Manual on how to correctly cite different types of artwork

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These sources will help provide the basic outlines of what to do and think about when researching as well as guide you on how to properly cite the information found.

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Under this section you will find some activities that will help guide in what to research or what vocabulary to use in order to find the specifics that you are looking for.

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Here are a list of reputable art magazines that can be used to conduct art research. The majority of these magazine's websites are structured in a way that mimics social media sites(refer to each post to see which site is which and what you might be most interested in). These website often hold articles pertaining to individual artworks, public perception of the artworks, and additional relevant commentary. It can be seen that most of these websites are set up in a way to research through image browsing, and then additional reading.

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A more traditional resource for researching art and art history. These art museum's website will provide basic context and relevance for artworks on display and within their collections. These websites traditionally focus more on writing and reading for research then image searching.

Tier Words Triangle

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Use this printable pyramid to help narrow art vocabulary down from vague to specific to help establish key research words.

Write out a list of art vocabulary in which you think is relevant to your research project. Place those words into different categories(tiers) in order of specifics. Words in tier 1 will provide you with the most options to look through while researching, while tier 3 words will give you more in depth and precise results.

Tier 1 (bottom tier): These will be your most basic and common words. Words that most everyone will know (ex: color, paint, clay, etc.)

Tier 2 (middle tier): These words will include more sophisticated but still often used words (ex: carving, medium, texture, etc.)

Tier 3: These will be rare content specific words. (ex: cubism, calligraphy, intaglio, etc.)

The MET

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also known as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. It is the fourth-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas.

SAM

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The Seattle Art Museum(SAM) is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, United States. The museum operates three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park, Capitol Hill; and Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront, which opened in 2007.

The Guggenheim

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum in NYC hosting mostly modern and contemporary artwork.

The Whitney

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The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a modern and contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.

The Louvre

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The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.

Museum Website List

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This article details additional art museums with extensive online collections and good websites for research purposes.

See Saw

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See Saw is an interactive art gallery map app that allows you to view and see reviews of artwork currently on display, while also informing people on how to see the work in person. Think of this as your google maps to the art world.

ARTnews

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ARTnews is a magazine completely centered around current art trends and proceedings. The website is similarly formatted to that of The New York Times website.

Hyperallergic

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Hyperallergic magazine is an art magazine website that focuses more on individual artists both present and archived. This magazine broadens to include video references, and reviews if video formatting is more to one’s liking. This magazine is similar to Youtube, Tiktok, and Twitter.

Colossal

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A magazine site and magazine dedicated to the arts. The website is formatted in a similar fashion to Instagram. Articles are filtered through tags. On their homepage, there are easy tabs listed at the top to sort through artwork by medium or art style.

Juxtapox

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A magazine and social media site dedicated to the sharing of artist work in contemporary spaces, and galleries. Through their home page users can find artwork they like, but then also opt to share, like, and respond to pictures and articles. This gives the website a similar feeling to Twitter and Tiktok.

Art Magazine List

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An additional list of reputable art magazine websites that might be interesting and useful for further research. The majority of these magazines focus on contemporary artwork, and have similar formatting to The New York Times website.

The Big Three

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Use this printable worksheet to further understand and conceptualize why certain researched articles and artworks would be relevant to what you are doing by assessing three key questions:

What surprised you?
What did the author think you knew?
How does this change your thinking?

These questions can help you organize your thoughts, and breakdown the information into what is new, already known, and most interesting.

Semantic Map

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Use this printable guide, or create your own map to show relationships between key themes and vocabulary. Like in the tier words triangle activity, start in the middle by making a circle with the most broad overarching term and get more specific as you branch out and make connecting circles. This type of mapping out words and concepts can help visualize the different families that concepts and words are placed into. This displays a more detailed train of thought to help with specific research.

Book Head Heart

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Use this worksheet to help identify personal connections, impactful subject matter, and additional questions brought up when looking at a piece of artwork or reading an article by using 3 key questions:

What is the work about?
What connections can you make?
What was the author trying to tell me?

Think deeply about how the artwork and concepts can be related to different art movements, public perceptions, and specific techniques that are being used.