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It takes a little time to like these, but that’s what should happen. Good art can’t always be got at first glance. Standing with Tyler K. Ormsby’s four paintings for a few minutes, at first I recalled how one Philadelphia critic reacted to Winslow Homer in 1878, noticing “two qualities not often combined: an appreciation of rugged natural character, with poetic refinement. It is not easy to be blinded to his defects,” the critic continues, “there are plenty of them. He does not know enough about either light or color. I imagine to myself, knowing nothing whatever about it, that he suffers for lack of a thorough technical bringing up… He is possessed by his idea and puts upon the…