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Beer In Art #96: Charlene Audrey’s Four Beer Nations

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Today’s art is by Charlene Audrey, a freelance illustrator born in Syracuse, new York, but raised in Quebec, Canada. She’s done high-end wallpaper and decorative arts but more lately does painting. She created these four paintings which are sold as posters on most of the popular poster websites. Each one depicts the beer of a specific country; Belgium, the U.S., Ireland and Germany. Why these four? I couldn’t tell you. Each painting shows a bottle of beer and a glass filled with the beer in the foreground. The backgrounds include a sign for the pub or brewery and a landscape from the country, too.

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Belgium.

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America

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Ireland.

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Germany.

Guinness Ad #37: The Kinkajou

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Our 37th Guinness poster by John Gilroy features an upside-down Kinkajou holding a pint of Guinness upside down, too, causing the zookeeper to tilt his head back. It also features the tagline “My Goodness — My Guinness,” with the second part upside-down. In the corner is also the following text. “Just think what kinkajou can do.”

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Beer In Ads #207: New Lebanon Brewing

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Friday’s ad is a turn of the century ad for a Pennsylvania brewery, New Lebanon Brewing. The brewery was first founded in 1874 and went through a variety of name changes. It was Lebanon Brewing from 1884 to 1893 and Lebanon Valley Brewing from 1934 until it closed in 1959. But it was New Lebanon Brewing from 1893 to 1920, so this ad has to have been from those years.

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Beer In Ads #203: Epidor Moritz

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Monday’s ad is for a Spanish brewery, Moritz in Barcelona, which was founded in 1856 and closed in 1978. Remaining family members started up the brand again a few years ago, contracting the brewing. This ad is for Epidor, a strong lager they debuted July 23, 1923. Given the strange face of the man in the ad, I’m not exactly sure who their target audience was or why they thought that would help sell beer. Does it make you want to drink their beer?

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Beer In Art #95: Wesley Alan Harris’ Bottlecap Art

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Today’s featured artwork is by an RN from Plano, Texas, who in in his spare time makes incredible works of art using crowns, or bottlecaps, as his medium. The one that I first saw was a bottle cap version of the famous work by Henri Matisse, Icarus. The framed bottlecap Icarus is 2.5 by 4 feet.

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And here’s one of his Warhol-inspired portraits of Marilyn Monroe.

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Here’s how he got into making bottlecap art, from his blog:

My work with bottle caps all started as a joke in college, but eventually became a hobby, and moreover a form of art that is quite interesting, stimulating, and rare. It is also keeping in theme with today’s mindset of reusing and recycling trash to make genuine treasures. I have many friends, relatives, coworkers, and favorite drinking/dining establishments who save bottle caps for me.

A friend of mine opened a bar in 2008, and I offered my first piece as decoration in the bare-walled establishment. After receiving copious and favorable feedback about my first piece, I decided to undertake bottle capping more seriously in 2009. I have completed several ‘spec’ pieces, in addition to selling my first piece in August 2009. In March 2010 I had a showing of all of my bottle cap artwork.

Here’s that first one he did, which was started n 2002 but not finished until 2006.

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I think this is my favorite of his originals, a mostly blue field with the sun in the corner.

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And finally, here’s another Matisse inspired piece, his recreations of Blue Nude, Souvenir of Biskra.

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You can see the rest of Harris’ bottlecap works at his portfolio, many of which are for sale.

Guinness Ad #36: Tractor Push

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Our 36th Guinness poster by John Gilroy features a farmer lifting a heavy tractor (it actually looks a little like a tank) to let some baby ducks, and their momma duck, pass by. The tagline is “Guinness for strength” since it’s the bottle of Guinness in his back pocket that gave him the duck-protecting strength.

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