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The first stage of the annual China-Korea calligraphy and painting exhibition is art work selection. The exhibition didn’t have a theme; the main purpose of the exhibition is the communication between two countries with the special group. The exhibition is displaying in Changchun this year, so we response to take a big party of the exhibition. All the artworks of the exhibition are from our students. We put a note first, to ask students submit two works for each one, and the subject and style are free. You can give us Chinese traditional paintings, calligraphies, photos, crafts, and paintings. Every style is welcome in the exhibition, however, not all works can display in the exhibition. Every teacher of the subject is the judge of their area. I need to organize all works, and separate them for teachers. At this time, I can see all the works first and choose my favourites, and then compare with the choice of teachers. This can give me an idea what is the difference and how to evaluate some works. Especially in Chinese traditional paintings, some evaluations are really different with western paintings. We focus on the spirit of the work which may appears on colour, space, objects scheme and technique of drawing. The colour can explain as different level of the ink. Usually, Chinese traditional paintings prefer black and white style; so the different level of the ink is the method to express the space. This process helps me to get more knowledge and practice to know and evaluate these paintings. We spend a week to choose art works, some of these are really amazing works, which cannot be believed belonging to students. I cannot show you these works, this is so sad. Finally, we choose more than 200 works in all areas, which is huge challenging for design the exhibition. This is the problem; I don’t think we can display so many collections in our gallery. However, the exhibition was going on.