Hans-Georg Gadamer, in legitimizing aesthetics and art, ascribes to the concept of beauty its traditional place, but tradition is a problematic concept since it must contend with the new in art so as to make it compatible with the changed social and cultural reality. What Gadamer leaves behind are the concepts of consciousness and self-consciousness, in doing so, he speaks of art and beauty as a form of play whose universal aspect reverses the humanistic characterization of the past without renouncing the concept of beauty. However, Gadamer while retaining the idea of beauty has been reluctant to criticize humanism and to embrace modernist art and the Avant-guard which rejected the traditional concept of beauty characterized by harmony and symmetry. The Paul Valéry aphorism “Beauty is no more” has changed the role and meaning of today’s aesthetics. However, art and aesthetics can still be saved by the universality of dialogic language, whose vocabulary must be constantly reinvented if artworks and aesthetics are to become new discoveries as well as new inventions.