1. You go to art museums for fun. 

2. Your the only person who’s skin crawls when you see a Thomas Kinkade painting. Your skin crawls even more when your friends say “his art is so amazing!”

3. When you mention Leonardo DaVinci, your non-art history friends say, “oh the DaVinci code?!” and you just sigh and walk away.

4. You look at nudes as a part of your degree, unlike your male housemates. 

5. You know the meaning of words like ‘chiarascuro’, ‘trompe de l’oeil, and ‘sfumato’. 

6. You know the difference between performance art and a crazy homeless person.

7. You’ve got an opinion on Damien Hirst and you are prepared at any moment to launch into a 20 minute debate about it.

8. You plan most of your holidays around what art museums the place has got.

9. You don’t actually have that many artists for friends.

10. To make up for it, you have made up friendships with a ton of Dead, White, European Males. 

11. You’ve used the word ‘painterly’ to mean about ten thousand different things. 

12. You know you’re an old history of art student when you remember being taught with the aid of a slide machine.

13. Well if “that’s so easy, I could have done it” WHY DIDN’T YOU? 

14. Peggy Guggenheim, Alfred H Barr, Leo Castelli, and Charles Satchi are personal heroes. 

15. You’ve become a pro at memorizing birth and death dates. And it’s starting to creep your non-art history friends out.