How to Prepare the Best Speeches about Art

By Sandra Carter


We have struggled at one time or another to come up with an interesting speech or presentation for either a class, or some group that we have chosen to belong to. The best speeches and presentations come from a zeal in the speaker to give some of that feeling onto their listeners. But they also come from good speech topics.

If you are having difficulty getting beyond the first step of coming up with some good speech topics surrounding a subject like art, there's a great website with various speech topics called AboutTopics.com that may get you moving on your speech writing journey. Since there's no place to go until you have that gem of a topic surrounding your genre, this is the first place you must focus on.

Some examples of engaging speech topics to be found at the above website in the art section are "Women Artists from the French Impressionist Period" and "The American Western Art Market: Its economics, works, and patrons". One that might be particularly engaging to somebody concerned in politics and sociology is, "Why did colonial America not produce artists analogous to its Western european counterparts? Consider the social, industrial, educational and political sides of this situation". You'll be able to find concrete subjects like "Compare and contrast Roadin's Thinker with Michelangelo's David", which is fairly easy. Or you can search for topics that take you out of this world like, "Ghiberti's creation of the baptist doors of the Florence Cathedral (The Paradise) ".

When you have chosen your subject, it is time to move on to a well made speech surrounding it. The best speech presentations have a pattern that is made around a fascinating subject, but you also need to do a large amount of research work and spend some time immersing yourself in the pool of available info.

Once you have sufficiently become a semi-expert on the topic, you will be better prepared to deliver your information in an interesting manner. When you're in front of your listeners, make efforts to use natural gestures, or non-verbal communication signs to enhance the oral part of your speech. If suitable, use visual power point presentaiton, or physical visual aids that can be passed around. Also , humour is something that not only catches listeners' attention, but helps to keep it there.

Put all of these things together, and you've a superb starter tool kit for your speech!




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