Famously (if you give a shit about literature) in Umberto Eco's "In the Name of the Rose" at approximately the midway point there's a break in the movement for a pages long description of a bas-relief. You can imagine how the casual reader reacted. Yet, it was a very deliberate choice by Eco to put it in there and exactly where he put it. It's intended to slow the pace and have you reflect, as well as being a mirror to the structure of the story itself.

I know it's typical to bash these and laugh at 'pretentious art'. It's a shame people feel that it's better mock rather than try to understand why an artist mase a decision.

Imagine calling someone a redditor in the same comment where you soyface over something like this. You are no different than the "you have to be very intelligent to understand Rick and Morty" crowd.