Research is not done in a vacuum. Research articles will build upon previous works, which allows you to follow a timeline of research.
If you find an article that you like, look at that article's references/citations. You may find more articles that are similar in their research goals and that could be useful. You can then use Google Scholar to locate the full text. For instance, here is a citation of an article about Hokusai.
Guth, Christine M. E. "Hokusai's Great Waves in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Visual Culture." The Art Bulletin 93, no. 4 (2011): 468–485. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23208270.
Input the article title in the Google Scholar search box (be sure that you have already set up your Library Links to connect to Santa Fe College). You may need to add in more information, such as author names, if there are too many irrelevant search results.
Look to the right for the full text links. If there is no full text available, you may place an Interlibrary Loan request.
You may also move forward within the research. In Google Scholar, it will tell you how many articles have cited the article you are looking at. In this case, the article has been cited 7 times.
Click that Cited by link to see articles that have cited this article, along with full text links as needed.