Crimson & Clover by T. James & the Shondells (AmberSky vocals/guitar)

"Crimson & Clover" is a 1968 song by American rock band Tommy James and the Shondells. Written by the duo of Tommy James and drummer Peter Lucia Jr., it was intended as a change in the direction of the group's sound and composition. In February of 1969, Crimson & Clover reached number one on US charts. Prince, Joan Jett, & Cher are some of the artists who have covered this song.Show more

The visuals in this video are of Impressionist artists and their artwork. Impressionism art was a radical art movement that began in the late 1800s. French Impressionism started with painting and then to music. Impressionism art developed mainly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

“Impressionist paintings comprise the work produced by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques. The Impressionist artists rebelled against classical art by embracing modernity to create art that reflected the world in which they lived. Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, and Berthe Morisot. Later Édouard Manet, whose earlier style had strongly influenced several of them, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and others joined them.

The identifying feature of the Impressionist artist was an attempt to record a scene accurately and objectively, capturing the transient effects of light on color and texture. They abandoned the traditional muted browns, grays, and greens in favor of a lighter, more brilliant palette; stopped using grays and blacks for shadows; built up forms out of discrete flecks and dabs of color; and often painted outside rather than in the studio. They abandoned traditional formal compositions in favor of a more casual and less contrived disposition of objects within the picture frame, and their subject matter included landscapes, trees, houses, and even urban street scenes and railroad stations. After the French Academy’s Salon consistently rejected most of their works, they held their own exhibition in 1874; seven others followed. A critic described them derisively as “impressionists,” and they adopted the name as an accurate description of their intent. Before dissolving in the late 1880s, the group had revolutionized Western painting.”

Sources: Wikipedia

This is my rendition of Troy Hawes' vocal/guitar arrangement of "Crimson and Clover."