Monet Reseach

I read this excerpt from a website ht i totally stumbled on by chance whilst writing about the Spiraljetty and it as inspired me on a great level, I've never really been into paintings that much, of course i like them and i find some amazing but its not something that i follow but this website intrigued me so much with this one paragraph and some of the late impressionist's paintings.

CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
'Rouen Cathedral - The Portal', 1894
(oil on canvas)

CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
'Rouen Cathedral in the Morning Fog', 1894
(oil on canvas)

CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
'Rouen Cathedral in Grey Weather', 1894
(oil on canvas)

CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
'Rouen Cathedral - Harmony in Brown', 1894
(oil on canvas)

'Rouen Cathedral in the 1890's (photograph)

''Impressionist painters tried to capture the quality of light and atmosphere of a subject under particular lighting or weather conditions. The Impressionist’s painting technique allowed artists to create colours and tones that had more natural appearance than anything achieved by traditional methods of painting.
The Impressionists rejected the old idea that the shadow of an object was made up from the colour of the object with some brown or black added. They avoided the use of brown and black. The range of colours Monet used was drawn from the spectrum. He did not mix up his colours before he painted them, but broke them down into their separate hues and then painted them in small strokes of pure colour next to each other. For example, if he was painting a green object he would paint strokes of yellow and blue together which, on being viewed from a distance, would form a green in the eye of the spectator. Another technique he used was to tint his shadows with complementary (opposite) colours to give them more vitality. For example, in this painting of 'Rouen Cathedral in Full Sunlight' he creates the brown shadows of the building by painting strokes of yellow and red to make orange and then darkens them with spots of blue. All this is done with strokes of pure unmixed colours which blend in the eye of the viewer''

 http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/landscapes/claude_monet.htm

As shown here, the cathedral is or the most part a static element, something that does not change in appearance day to day but through Monets paintings we can see that the site can change in how it looks just by a change in the weather, from looking glorious and holy on a sunny day to looking dark and sinister when there is an overcast.