Trevor Denning RBSA (born 1923) is an English artist, sculptor, writer, and former art teacher. The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is a Learned society of Artists and an Art gallery based in the Jewellery Quarter Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms For general education in the broad range of Arts see Arts education, for education in the Performing arts see Performing arts education

Biography

Denning was born in Moseley, Birmingham,^[1] studying painting and graphics at the Birmingham School of Art from 1938 to 1942 and teaching there (from 1971 the Faculty of Art of Birmingham Polytechnic) between 1945 and 1985. For the British politician and other people with the same surname see Moseley or Mosley. Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e Graphics (from Greek grc [[wiktγραφικός γραφικός]] see -graphy) are Visual presentations on some surface such as a wall The Birmingham School of Art was a municipal art school based in the centre of Birmingham, England. The City of Birmingham Polytechnic was designated in 1971 and later on became the University of Central England in Birmingham in 1992 (and in 2007 Birmingham City University ^[2]

In 1947 he was one of the founders of the Birmingham Artists Committee^[3] and in 1961 he organised the Four Letter Art exhibition at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, having been elected a member the year before. The Birmingham Artists Committee was an English Artist collective that organised exhibitions of Painting and Sculpture in Birmingham The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is a Learned society of Artists and an Art gallery based in the Jewellery Quarter ^[4] Although there was no organisational link, Denning's work exhibiting contemporary art in the city was acknowledged as an influence by the artists who founded the Ikon Gallery in 1964, and he held a solo exhibition at the gallery two years later. The Ikon Gallery ( is an English gallery of Contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. ^[5]

Denning is also a published expert on Spanish playing cards. The Baraja (literally deck/pack of cards) is a Spanish set of Playing cards with some resemblance to the 52-card Anglo-American-French deck He was made the first Member of Honour of the Asociación Española de Coleccionismo e Investigación del Naipe in 1989 and in 1993 won the Modiano Prize for research into the history of playing cards. ^[1]

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