In this research, it was determined in which direction the studies in the area of art education have been progressed by analyzing the content of art education. The study is a documentary survey study. The study was limited to 109 articles which were analyzed after surveying the data base of Science Direct and Tyler -Francis. As the result of this analysis, it was determined that the most of the art education studies were done in the year 2012. It was also determined that student groups were preferred as the sample groups in these studies. It was also found out that the studies were mostly quantitative and document scanning was mostly used as the data gathering technique. In the analyzed studies, it was also determined that survey method was mostly used as a model. Most of the studies in the area of art education in the surveyed databases were done in America. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.