What are the research methods commonly used in art?

Formalism and iconology are commonly used in the research methods of art.

Iconology, in short, is the method of studying images. In fact, it is the decoding of painting, and the decoding process has to go through three stages. First of all, we are faced with a natural theme, such as a gentleman coming face to face in the street, taking off his hat and bending over. At this stage, we only look at the form and posture, not the pursuit of meaning.

Secondly, image symbols, we began to ask about the basic, conventional and most basic semantics of this picture or symbol. For example, anyone who knows western culture will know that taking off one's hat is a sign of friendship and a gentleman's behavior. Through further historical and cultural research, it is found that the act of taking off the hat originated from the Middle Ages. It was still very popular in the first half of the 20th century, but since President Kennedy's bareheaded appearance changed the fashion in Europe and America, it would be inappropriate for anyone to do so today.

Brief introduction to art

Art can be a macro concept or an individual phenomenon. It integrates and balances by capturing and digging, feeling and analyzing, and applying comprehensive humanistic factors such as skills, imagination and experience. It is an important supplementary means of language, creating objects, environments, images, actions or sounds with aesthetic meaning.

There are three ways of presenting art, or it presents something special through the intermediary of generality, and there is no difference between them. Or take special things as an intermediary to present universality and differences between them. Or directly present the indifference itself (at this time, universality is special directly, and special things are universal directly).

Image is an aesthetic image. Aesthetic situation and artistic conception in a broad sense mainly refer to vivid, concrete and sensible images of people and things that can arouse people's thoughts or emotional activities in artistic activities.