Alberti, Stendhal, HNWI, and Asian Art – FESCH.TV

Alberti, Stendhal, HNWI, and Asian Art & FESCH.TV:

Keynote Presentation: James S. Moy
Alberti, Stendhal, HNWI, and Asian Art 
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | 11:40-12:05 | Science Hall (Building 1, 4F) & Online

Since the 15th century Italian Renaissance and onward, the notion of perspectival painting by the likes of Alberti and da Vinci has held sway on the evolving western art scene. Then, just as today, name-branded artists received patronage and salaries from the wealthiest art collectors of their times. With the perfection of this painterly technique and the invention of photography in the late 18th century, it could be said that the numerous hermeneutically driven trajectories of the relentless modernist pursuit of the new, latest thing, came into play. This drive for the latest fashion gave rise to the speculative art market that dominates today. This study will lay out some of the developmental steps that lead to the current state of the art market, including the consideration of what the market will look like as western hegemony fractionalizes and the world evolves into multipolar sovereign trajectories. This presentation will lead into a concluding discussion where Asian Art and its impact on the decentralisation of the global art scene will be examined.