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Balinese diaspora painter art creativity will not be separated from the bond of Balinese culture's noble values, especially aesthetic rules derived from Hinduism. The picture of Balinese diaspora painter paintings in Yogyakarta is loaded with the deposition of Hindu aesthetics, philosophical issues of Balinese locality values, contemporary art, to globalisation. This research investigates the content of Hinduism cosmology philosophy and the visual art representation of Balinese diaspora painters in Yogyakarta as part of the transformation of Balinese visual art aesthetics. Method of presentation of works with "mental representation system" and "visual language (sign)". The three main rules of Hinduism aesthetics analyse the representation of painting, namely, truth (Satyam), chastity (Shivam) and beauty (Sundaram). This study found that the Balinese diaspora painters with traditional experience raise selfawareness of "a renewed thought, clashed" between understanding Bali's local wisdom with Javanese culture and gradually affecting their conceptual map representation of art in the contemporary art world. In conclusion, Balinese painter diaspora creative process is very pervasive aesthetic, cultural capital, term of Hindu-Balinese philosophy in the expression of symbolisation of artwork. They realised the importance of the philosophy of local Balinese traditions as fundamental conceptions of Hinduism aesthetics in everyday art creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]