The purpose of this paper is to analyze the research trend of art education field during the last two decades(from 1985 to 2004). For tills study, the articles published in “Art Education Review” has been analysed and the results are as follows. The overall frequency of publication has been increased steadily and remarkable quantitative growth was attained in 1997, 2001 and 2002. On the research trend by theme, over eighty percent of the publications are related to art education and the rest of them are papers on the studio art, art theory and art appreciation. According to theme, instruction is 21%, art education theoryㆍphilosophy is 11%, and both curriculumㆍtextbook and children’s art are 9%. Papers on assessment needed in school are only eight. As far as research trend by subject, general art eduction is over 30%, next is elementary school, elementaryㆍsecondary school, nursery, nurseryㆍelementary school in sequence. Only one article was published related on extraordinary school. On the research methods, descriptive method has been over 50%, then experimental method, next historical method. Only 4% of papers are related to philosophical method. In this survey, the relatively weak areas which must be activated for further refinement of our art education curricula have been suggested.