Self-portrait as Kurt Cobain, as Andy Warhol, as Myra Hindley, as Marilyn Monroe, 1996

Douglas Gordon (born 1966) is a Scottish artist. This work is copyrighted. ... This work is copyrighted. ... Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana, which also included bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl. ... Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) was an American painter, filmmaker, publisher, and a major figure in the pop art movement. ... Moors murderer Myra Hindley Myra Hindley (July 23, 1942–November 15, 2002), known as the Moors Murderess, was born in Crumpshall in the English city of Manchester. ... Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress of the 20th century. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country in northwest Europe, occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain. ... An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. ...

Gordon was born in Glasgow and studied art first there and later at the Slade School in London. His first solo show was in 1981. Glasgows location in Scotland Glasgow or Glaschù is Scotlands largest city, on the River Clyde in west central Scotland. ... Great Museums in the World (Louvre, Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, Picasso …) CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum Very large website with good reproduction quality scans of thousands of paintings Goetia Fine Art - Surrealism Art History With biographies and Works of the Surrealist Masters Art-Atlas. ... Part of the University College London, the Slade School of Art was founded in 1868 as the result of an endowment by Felix Slade. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...

Much of Gordon's work is seen as being about memory and uses repitition in various forms. In one early work, Meaning and Location (1990), a passage from the Gospel of Luke is given with a comma in different places, thus subtly changing the meaning of the sentence. List of Names (1990-present) is a list of every person Gordon has ever met and can remember. One version of this is applied onto the wall of a stairwell in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The Gospel of Luke is the third of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament, which tell the story of Jesus life, death, and resurrection. ... The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Scotland, holds the national collection of Modern art. ...

Some of Gordon's works are related to the films of Alfred Hitchcock. 24 Hour Psycho (1993) is Hitchcock's film Psycho slowed down so that it lasts twenty four hours. Feature Film (1999) is a projection of Gordon's own film of James Conlon conducting Bernard Hermann's score to Vertigo, thus drawing attention to the film score and the emotional responses it creates in the viewer. In one installation, this was placed at the top of a tall building, referencing one of the film's main plot points. Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the suspense genre. ... This article is about the novel and the movies based on it. ... James Conlon, born 1950 in New York City, is considered one of classical musics pre-eminent conductors. ... Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911–December 24, 1975) was a composer, best known for his film scores, particularly for Alfred Hitchcock-directed films. ... Vertigo is a 1958 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ... A film score is the background music in a film, generally specially written for the film and often used to heighten emotions provoked by the imagery on the screen or by the dialogue. ...

Gordon has also made photographs, often in series with relatively minor variations between each individual piece. A photograph (often just called a photo) is an image (or a representation of that on e. ...

Gordon won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the following year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the sculptor J.M.W. Turner. ... The Venice Biennale (Italian: Biennale di Venezia) is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes places once every two years in Venice, Italy. ...

External link

• Gordon's profile at the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/news_comment/artistsinprofile/gordon.shtml)