Edam Windmill ☴ Signac ☷ Canvas architecture also known as The Allegory

also known as The Allegory of Painting

Some of the character details include a woman with a pet monkey on a leash

The central panel and main subject

where free sideshows were staged outside the circus tent to sell tickets

Van Gogh regarded this work as one of his best summer paintings

Edam Windmill ☴ Signac ☷ Canvas architecture also known as The AllegoryEdam Windmill (1896, Moulin d'Edam) by Paul Signac depicts a windmill towering above the flat Dutch countryside. Signac was exploring a looser, more rectangular brushstroke similar to a mosaic, as opposed to the precise dots common in pointillism. Here with dense layers of rhythmic, overlapping brushwork, each stroke is set at a particular angle to achieve a criss cross effect in the sky, and halo effect around the sun. This windmill may have been