In order to present artistic consciousness of Hellinism and its forms of functioning a reader will get acquainted with the philosophers' views on art of this period and with the real socio-cultural environment and artistic atmosphere where these thinkers worked as well. A number of observations and conceptions which were expressed in the aesthetics of Greek Antiquity stimulated all subsequent theories and artistic practices of the European art. However it must be said that not all tendencies of Ancient Art were reflected in the artistic theories of its day. We have attempted to show the way of developing and enriching of the problem of artistic consciousness during the Hellinizm ancient period. The earliest standpoint was that art must respond to the moral laws and the truth the classical representatives of which were Aristophanes in poetry and Plato in philosophy. Evolution occurred in the direction of autonomous understanding of art and the beautiful. A new position held by Aristotle is followed by Hellenistic scholars, though some of them, such as schools of epicureans and stoics, still adhere to a heteronomic standpoint. Besides, according to the earliest point of view, art must obey to the universal laws. Evolution occurred in the way of acknowledging an individual creation. In the favor of this new idea Aristotle expressed his view and Hellenistic writers responded to it with particular intensity, though none of them doubted about the existence of general laws of art. It is shown of the work which tendencies caused the sharpness of psychological deepening in the artistic theory and practice of Hellenism and emphasis is laid on a persons' inner life, subjectivity as well. Attention is drawn to general aesthetic significance of the symbolic theory of an artistic nature that was deliberately revised by philosophical patristic of the late Hellenism.