Wild Thing: by Sue Prideaux - Spectrum Culture

Wild Thing: by Sue Prideaux - Spectrum Culture

No artist’s life has been so identified with a myth and counter-myth as Paul Gauguin’s. For the first half of the 20th century, he fulfilled the role of the artist as romantic rebel, throwing off the shackles of bourgeoise life and expectations to pursue artistic and hedonistic freedom in Tahiti. This was the Gauguin that inspired W. Somerset Maugham’s 1919 novel The Moon and Sixpence, later adapted for theater, cinema and TV, and to some extent…