This paper aims to examine whether Gadamer offered a proper understanding of art in his hermeneutics from the point of view of the analytic philosophy of art. It is argued that Gadamer's critique of the aesthetic consciousness presupposes a theory of the being of artworks, which implies a theory of the artwork as an object of artistic experience. This theory is then identified as a hermeneutical variety of the Meaning and Gadamer's further specification of the meanings conveyed in artworks is analyzed and criticized.