Alcohol is represented in the arts since the beginning of time. Since the time of Baco and Dionísio to Impressionism, alcohol, and especially the wine, is an expression in the arts striking over the centuries and in various civilizations.

The authors propose to characterize the various forms of art that represented the alcohol. Since classicism, the liturgical representation of alcohol, through rebirth and finally “by the new art,” were the various representations of alcohol, seen as “representative” of several current and various forms of being in life.

The alcohol in the arts is the sociological expression of society deal with this issue. From initial Nectar of the Gods, the wormwood that served as a refuge for expressionists, the authors want to make a brief discussion of the evolution of the role of alcohol in society and its expression in the arts