People diving into a swimming pool no date

Curator: This sketch, by William Roberts, depicts people diving into a swimming pool. Editor: It’s all angles and repetition—almost feels like an instruction manual, or some kind of engineer's schematic. Curator: Roberts often returned to the theme of the bathers, finding an odd beauty in the regimented leisure. The visible grid speaks to a conscious construction. Editor: Exactly! It's not about spontaneous joy, but about controlled movement, labor reduced to leisure. We're seeing the means of production laid bare—the artist's hand, the grid, the iterative process. Curator: I like that, the labor of leisure, like finding poetry in bricklaying. Editor: And perhaps that's what Roberts was after, yes. Curator: It's just that, to me, it feels like a blueprint for some collective, utopian experience. Editor: Maybe it's both. A plan, yes, but for something deeply human, even flawed.