Home/Symbols/Tricolor flagsTricolor flags SymbolismCivic identity and modern festivity; signals of a public, urban space enlivened by national colors.Common ThemesThe modern lens: urban life & speedMortality & transience (memento mori)Nationalism & patriotismLeisure & recreationLandscape & placeLabor & workArtworks Featuring This SymbolImpasse des Deux Frères in MontmartreVincent van Gogh (1887)Van Gogh’s Impasse des Deux Frères in Montmartre crystallizes a <strong>threshold</strong> between rustic mills and a city turning to <strong>modern leisure</strong>. Tricolor flags, a wheeled “windmill” kiosk, and sketchlike figures animate a broad, chalky lane under pale winter light, declaring a neighborhood—and an artist—mid‑transition <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[3]</sup>.
