Painting I / Research Methods for Artists
Practice question · Sort into groups

Sort each activity by Frayling's three relations.

Groups: Research into art · Research through art · Research for art

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  1. Two of the six treat art as the object of study rather than as the method.
  2. Two of them are gathering that serves the making without being the contribution.
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Research into art: 1485 pigment costs, Reception history

Research through art: Ground test panels, Material-led works

Research for art: Conservation study, Direct art viewing

Why

The third column is where most student research honestly sits, and saying so is a strength rather than an admission. Reading and looking are what make a project possible; the problem only arises when a dossier presents the gathering as though it were the finding.

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