lovers and sired illegitimate children. all of which is true. but what this show is really about is gauguin the artist and pioneer who as a stockbroker collected the work of pisaro and cezanne. rejected their ideas of painting but when he moved to an artists' colony in brittany, everyday life and ushered in a new age with works like this. a painting of two parts divided by the trunk of a tree. the left-hand side depicts reality. a group of women, a priest. the other side is a fantasy. a vision of jacob fighting an angel. he uses color to express emotion or metaphor. the red here, for example, representing the supernatural. these ideas led, in part, to the expressionism of his quarrelsome friend, vincent van gogh. and the dream-inspired art of the surrealists some 30 years later. which is all very good. why put on the exhibition at this moment? it is simply a case of gauguin's turn. maybe there's a need for a blockbuster. or is there more to this