The purpose of the study was to analyze art textbooks for primary, junior high, and senior high school in Korea, the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and Japan. In order to set up the basis for the systematic organization of the content structure of art terms for developing the next Korean National Art Curriculum. For this study, each nation's National Art Curriculum, textbook system, art terms in art textbooks for each country's school level were researched. The textbooks which were collected and analyzed are following: ‘Art 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6’, ‘Art 1, 2, 3', ‘Art’, the art textbooks in primary, middle, and high school in Korea, respectively. ‘Adventures in Art 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6’, the art textbooks for primary school, and ‘Exploring visual design: The elements and principles’, the art textbook for junior and senior high school in America. Various references on National Art Curriculum on internet for primary, junior high, and senior high school in England. And finally, ‘Dowhagongjack(圖畵工作) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6', the art textbooks for primary school, ‘Middle-school Art 1, 2, 3’, the art textbooks for junior high school, ‘High-school Art 1, 2, 3', the art textbooks for senior high school in Japan. The findings of this study are as follows: 1) The art contents in the next National Art Curriculum and art textbooks for each level should be developed and presented in accordance with appropriate art terms. 2) Art terms suggested in the frame for analyzation for each school level, which is, ‘art elements’(‘dot’, ‘line’, ‘shape/form’, ‘colour’, ‘volume’, ‘texture’, ‘space’, ‘movement’, etc), ‘art principles’ (‘balance’, ‘harmony’, ‘emphasis’, ‘unity’, ‘contrast’, ‘pattern’, ‘rhythm’, etc), ‘art careers’, ‘artistic genre’, ‘art terms for art appreciation, art history’, ‘aesthetics’, ‘art materials and art tools', and finally, ‘art methods and techniques(art skills)’, would be changeable for the purpose of the units.