This thesis deals with the topic of the inquiry based education method in the subject of Fine Arts in secondary education. It gradually introduces the reader to teaching practices and connects them with the inquiry based education method as a form of teaching. The thesis primarily deals with documents such as the National Framework Curriculum for Preschool Education and General Compulsory and Secondary Education and the National Curriculum Framework, their interrelationship and stance towards the inquiry based education method. Furthermore, the Curriculum of the subject Art Culture for Primary Schools and Fine Arts for secondary education, its relation to the National Framework Curriculum, research teaching and the Methodological Manual of the subject Fine Arts for the 1st grade of secondary school, which emerged from it, is discussed. The thesis also refers to teaching methods, teaching forms and procedures. It also touches on the topic of the possibility of applying the inquiry based education method as part of distance learning and the implementation of digital tools in the teaching of fine arts, where it offers a review of distance learning and the possibility of implementing inquiry based education to enrich it. Throughout the thesis, the primary focus is on the inquiry based education method and its relationship to the aforementioned documents and thematic areas. In some places, suggestions are given for the implementation of inquiry based education. The aforementioned documents are processed in terms of attitudes towards it, or to be precise, how they relate to the application of it withing secondary education. The thesis also follows the growing independence of students and thus the increasingly complex and advanced application of inquiry based education through the years of education. Furthermore, concrete examples of it proposed in the Methodological Manual and proposals for implementation teaching plans are analyzed and commented on. Finally, in the chapters on the advantages and disadvantages of the inquiry based education method and the conclusion, the final thought and message of the work is reached.