All the art institutions have there own way of researching and how they communicate about there understanding of the world and visual arts. Christopher frayling, he is rector of a school of art, and he wanted to know what research would be in the visual arts, he conjours up a debate of this subject. He looks at Picasso and his reference materials his practice and he starts this as artist research. He found artwork is expressive a new work is about personal development.
Fraylings line of arguments: research equals old territory, correlative cliches/stereotypes, research as dead/ process 'pragmatic'.
Fraylings 3 categories of research are research into art and design for example historical or aesthetic research, research through art and design which means into materials, techniques and technologies, and research for art and design for example Frayling like Picasso regards this as the hard one and that includes undisclosed materials and work intended to speak for itself, effectively you want to make something because it is the research.