To go into. The movie. By i am a savage im civilized people sense the facts in my work there is nothing that can surprise all disconcert except the fact that i am a savage in spite of myself. Who was paul gauguin. Why did he long to flee the civilized world. One last paradise was he searching for so far from home until his dying day. Until that last night on the mckays his silence in may nineteen zero three a month shy of his fifty fifth birthday. Here alone in his hut on a tiny island in the south seas he sensed his life was drawing to an end. I am. Whats behind his enduring legacy. Gogo rejected the conventions of French Society he was a renegade of modernism. He won his freedom his freedom as a man and as an artist. One by one he severed all ties to his previous life. Gauguins first journey began ominously his father a politically active opposition journalist died of a ruptured aneurism on the ship taking the family to peru in one thousand nine hundred nine. Just before his death he