Image Inspiration - Literalism

"Swallow the truth"

Although the connotation here are religious, I love the idea of newspaper style text being put inside clear capsules as forced information. Both simply as a visual standing with no concept or context attached it interests and inspires me as a possible piece for stand along work. Also, building on the idea of literalism this really plays on the idea of swallowing the truth, as a very visual representation of this concept.

Wider variety of liberalist prints available from - https://www.redbubble.com/shop/literalism+art-prints

"Sunflower" - http://www.coolthings.com/federico-uribe-makes-art-on-a-literal-shoestring-budget/

Not only has the artists use of a unique material (shoe laces) to form this work inspired me to look at alternative materials to create visual work, but also to look beyond 'idioms' as a basis of the creation of certain artworks falling under the liberalism research, and look at everyday words also, that can have very literal meanings.

EVEN just putting out a google image search for 'literal art' turns out a whole new idea of literal art, with text being used in certain cases to form the shape of the object the word is spelling out - https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw=1278&bih=678&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=8CucWu6LOdCAgQbGz6CwAQ&q=literal+art&oq=literal+art&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l2j0i7i30k1l3j0i8i30k1j0i24k1l2j0i10i24k1l2.525240.525573.0.525894.3.3.0.0.0.0.71.198.3.3.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.3.194...0i13k1j0i8i13i30k1.0.DkuSF08tY3c#imgrc=_ayz2tAD0qJN1M:

The idea of using idioms represented literally has also been used successfully in recent years to make postcards and greetings cards from retailers lie paperchase constantly taking new words and phrases and representing them in the form of 'cute' cartoon scenes or beings - https://blog.artfido.com/the-cutest-illustrations-of-idioms-literal-meanings/