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JERRY: I have to go meet Nina. Want to come up to her loft, check out her paintings?<\/p>\n

GEORGE: I don\u2019t get art.<\/p>\n

JERRY: There\u2019s nothing to get.<\/p>\n

GEORGE: Well, it always has to be explained to me, and then I have to have<\/p>\n

someone explain the explanation.<\/p>\n

JERRY: She does a lot of abstract stuff. In fact she’s painting Kramer right now.<\/p>\n

GEORGE: What for?<\/p>\n

JERRY: She sees something in him.<\/p>\n

GEORGE: So do I, but I wouldn’t hang it on a wall.<\/p>\n

In “The Letter,”<\/a> the 37th episode of Seinfield, Jerry’s girlfriend, played by Catherine Keener, is painting a portrait of Kramer, which inspires this conversation<\/span>. Did anyone have to explain visual art before 1850 or so? Did explanations become more important than the creative work itself at some point mid-20th century? Jerry is right: there’s plenty happening in a great painting, but there’s nothing to get in the greatest of them, at least in the sense of an explanation.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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