I suppose this is when you know that you've arrived as a master painter, when you can break all the rules of composition and yet somehow it works..... It shouldn't work, but yet it does.

Wondering what are your thoughts on the composition of this painting and thinking it might stimulate a profitable discussion as to why it works... or perhaps you think that it doesn't work, but is accepted only because it is signed in the corner by Claude Monet.

Or perhaps I'm wrong and it doesn't break the rules at all? But what about that one waterlily down in the left hand corner where it appears to be ready to fall out of the picture frame?

An art critic described this painting by Monet as "“a lovely meditation on the passage of a moment in time. “ Isn't that what we often want our landscape paintings to be, if only for us as the painter having the experience. Of course, we hope to also share our experience with others through our work.

Again your thoughts?