Towards the end of the eighteenth century, the concept of artistic genius was formulated and held up as the highest human species. Genius in art requires breaking the rules or exceeding them in ways that make them unrecognizable. There is a saying that "any sufficiently advanced skill is indistinguishable from magic." So when the Master in Art Alan De Mayo revolutionized art with his "Renaissance paintings," the response - from all art critics was total astonishment, and important critics of art named him as Rembrandt's successor.