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STEEL CITY

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Everydays by 008.eth

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008.eth

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Charles Sheeler - While Art Deco, flapper dresses, & jazz glistened the cities, some artists ventured to the steel mills, auto plants, and docks - To create their life's work - I saw this piece in 2016, & it's always stuck with me - River Rouge Plant | 1932 | Whitney Museum Art Motifs - Just as art today features themes of big tech, AI, VR/AR, humanoid robots - Art of the 1930s often featured heavy industry, the engine of the economy - America Today | Thomas Hart Benton | 1930-31 | The Met NYC Wealth from Steel - Andrew Carnegie changed landscape of American education - 1,689 of Carnegie libraries opened through the US ... many still open today - As well as funding of Carnegie Mellon & many other foundations - From factories to fine arts ... steel impacted culture Steel Country - We don't think about US as a steel powerhouse today - But in early 1900s ... steel was a vital business - Pittsburgh: top 10 city in population in 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940 vs 68th today - To this day, the America is reminded of Pittsburgh Steel heritage in NFL ... After the tweet thread ... - Decided to animate the billowing smoke, note due to the nature of generative art ... the buildings and chimneys differ in the video and still

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008.eth

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Americana

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