Unless it is to be considered capricious and completely arbitrary, the decision that one work of art is better than another presuppose that there are standards in terms of which such a decision can be explicated. The manner and method of criticism in turn will depend upon the critic’s notion of the nature of the standards which he use in explicating his evaluations. The problem to be discussed in this paper arise from a considerations of the need for relevant and meaningful evaluative statements in an art criticism that is not based upon absolute and universal standards. Such a need arise whenever a group of persons attempts to come to an intelligent agreement, or disagreements, are arrived at after careful consideration not only of the characteristic of the object to be evaluated, but also of the relevance to such characteristic of the standards used in the process of evolution.