The paper aims to make clear Hegel's thesis of"end of art"in the context of methodology of aesthetics.
Firstly, in order to make clear the thesis, we reconstruct the context in which the thesis has been issued from. In this context, Hegel considers the methodological problems of aesthetics.
Secondly, we interpret the thesis from two dimensions-historical and systematical-and we point out that the thesis did not deny the possibility of
development of art, but rather claim the necessity of philosophy of art.