There's something about top quality renaissance art that is lacking from modern art.

Hi, my name is LeBlond, Gerard LeBlond from sell info products online dot com (www.sellinfoproductsonline.com) and that special "something" has to do with attention to detail. Let me get more specific.

In front of me is a copy of Josef Albers' 1972 oil painting called "Study For Homage To The Square". The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was the owner back in 1999.

Let me describe the work in detail.

Don't worry this won't take too long.

24 inch by 24 inch orange square (takes up the entire canvas; oops I should have stated that the substrate is not canvas bu masonite... like the veneer on a cheap kitchen counter-top) with a slightly darker colored orange square just below center, with a slightly smaller reddish orange square just below center, with a last deeper red-orange square just below center. The squares are nestled within one another

That's it!

This piece doesn't inspire because I could commission a class of 4th graders to create works of art based on the above description and I predict that at least half of the class would come close to producing a near exact replica of the Albers' piece.

I bet I could get just as good of results by telling the fourth graders that they only have 20 minutes to execute the painting and that the ones who follow the instructions most closely will get a shiny Kennedy half dollar.

Heck, forget the fourth graders...

I could knock off a respectable replica in half the time.

Now, let us compare the Albers work with a truly inspirational piece by Albertinelli called The Visitation.

Oil on wood measuring 232 cm x 146 cm (91 inches by 57.5 inches) with the top 25% of the piece curved upward.

The piece includes classic architectural elements in the form of columns, arches, bases, capitals, molding and stairs.

It also has grass near the bottom and clouded sky peaking through the arches of the structure that predominates the scene. In the foreground are two women: Mary the mother of Jesus and her cousin Elizabeth (the mother of John the Baptist).

The flowing folds of the women's gowns, capes and veils are perfectly executed and the colors are vibrant and appealing to the eye.

Even if the observers know diddly-squat about the bible's new testmant they, assuming they possess an appreciation of artistic technical proficiency, will stop and wonder about the subjects and about the skills the artist had to master to pull off this beautiful tableau.