La bohème

Jonathan Larson lived a short life in poverty. He was born in New York 1960 and died 1996. During his short 36 year life he is credited for a few plays and received many awards as either a playwright or a composer including Tick, Tick Boom and the opera La Boheme inspired, Rent. After graduating from White Plains High School he was awarded a four year scholarship to Adelphi University on long Island for acting. During his college days he explored his creativity through playwriting. He wrote and performed

Two art works, The Snake Charmer (1870), by Jean Leon Gerome and Large Odalisqu (1814), by Ingres are two depictions of the eastern world in a Western viewpoint. Both paintings where painted by French artists who were portraying a culture and life they have never seen or experienced. Both artworks were created from the expanding French empire. However, the works are inaccurate representations of this “exotic” land, but both are rendered uniquely in their delineation. In “The Snake Charmer,” by