The purpose of this study is to explore and systematize the modern art's contents for the art textbooks in elementary, middle and high school. This study is conducted as follows: First, [Document Analysis] arranges the knowledges transformable into the educational contents, according to the separate isms and forms which brought about the important concepts and transposed the thought in the phenomena of modern art. Art works of reference shows the representative and authorized art works, which illustrate the Document Analysis and are useful to the contents' construction as well. Second, [Education Content] presents the subject and contents of learning, the suitable grades, in consideration of the effects of learning. The contents include ①the conceptual objective and ②the plastic objective. To achieve more effects of learning, the contents of the contemporary art can be conceived by the comparison with the past art and the photograph, since the contemporary art becomes clear when compared with different styles. The contents, explored and organized suitable for the different grades, are as follows: light and color(5th)/painting and photograph, art of the light(8th); subject of the art works(9th), modernism in art(10th); subjective color and form-realistic color and expressive color(3th)/painting method(5th); metaphors in the art works; collage(4th)/homogeneity and heterogeneity in the surface(6th)/numbers and letters in the painting(10th); creation and reference(7th); resemblance, representation and expression(6th) etc.