Chinanews, Guangzhou, November 13 – Usually the prices of the works of Chinese painters are based on the sizes of the paintings, which sounds really ridiculous to many painters and critics.An exhibition of the works of several famous Chinese painters, including Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, Xu Beihong and Fu Baoshi, was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province on November 11, 2007. At the exhibition, a teacher of art identification went out of his way to direct his students’ attention to a palm-sized painting by Qi Baishi, which was priced at hundreds of thousands of yuan.“In the past, a man thought that the bigger a painting was the better, and he once asked Qi Baishi to paint an extra large for him. Qi only produced a long scroll with a boy flying a kite, and the string between the boy and the kite was so long that it filled the painting, which really made the man feel embarrassed,” said the teacher.“The value of art objects, especially Chinese paintings, depends on nothing but their cultural contents. Smaller paintings can be more valuable if they have richer conotations. Size should never be the key factor deciding the price of a painting,” said Jia Bohong, a painter.However, different people often have different views on judging art objects, thus size has become a standard in the Chinese market, where not many buyers are professional in judging arts.