“Oh, you’re an Art History major…good luck with that!”

If I had a penny for every time I got this line at a party, family gathering, or other social event, I would graduate debt-free with two degrees from my atrociously expensive University.

Art history is a field of study that is simply overlooked these days as esoteric and archaic…essentially elitist and old. Before I embark on my mission to inject a little bit of insight into the blogosphere about what I think is culturally significant, I thought that I should first explain why artistic culture, at all, is important to me, and hopefully, to you.

You do not need to go to a gallery or a museum to see art. It is literally impossible to look around you and not see something that art hasn’t inspired in some way. A few of the more obvious examples: magazine covers and billboards.

Size zero women grace the covers of magazines like…