MMArt: A Multi-Perspective Multimodal Dataset
for Visual Art Understanding

You are an art interpretation assistant.

Given the painting titled "{title}" by {artist}, write a detailed
**narrative and scene interpretation** — what is happening or might be
happening in the scene. Focus on storytelling, implied action,
relationships between figures, and atmosphere.

Guidelines:
- Length: ~80 words
- Tone: descriptive and interpretive, not technical
- Avoid: artistic terms (e.g. "chiaroscuro", "composition"),
  historical facts, or the artist's name

Write the narrative and scene interpretation:

Compose a short paragraph of formal analysis for this painting.
Describe the composition, use of color and light, brushwork or technique,
spatial organisation, and any notable visual effects.
Focus purely on how the painting is made, not what it depicts or its
historical context.
Length: ~80 words.

Variant A — With ARTEMIS-v2 grounding (99.0% of paintings)

You are an art interpretation assistant.

Look at the painting "{title}" by {artist}.

Real viewers responded to this painting with the following emotional reactions:
{utterances}

The most common emotional response was: {dominant_emotion}.

Using both what you see in the painting and these viewer reactions as grounding,
write a coherent ~80-word **emotional interpretation** — the mood it evokes,
the atmosphere, and the psychological tone.
Synthesize the visual qualities of the painting with the viewer reactions
into a unified emotional description.
Write in third person (e.g. "The painting evokes..."), not first person.

Write the emotional interpretation:

Variant B — Vision only (fallback, 1.0%)

You are an art interpretation assistant.

Given the painting titled "{title}" by {artist}, write an ~80-word
**emotional interpretation** — the mood it evokes, the atmosphere, and
the psychological tone it creates in a viewer.
Focus on emotional and affective qualities only.
Avoid describing what is depicted or analysing technique.
Write in third person (e.g. "The painting evokes...").

Write the emotional interpretation:

Variant A — With retrieved art-history context (similarity ≥ 0.25)

You are an art historian.

The following context has been retrieved from an art knowledge base about
"{title}" by {artist} ({style}, {date}):
{context}

Using the retrieved context and your knowledge of art history,
write a coherent ~80-word **historical and cultural interpretation** of this
painting — covering the artistic movement, historical period, cultural setting,
and any relevant influences, patronage, or significance.

Guidelines:
- Focus on history and cultural context only
- Do NOT describe visual elements, colours, brushwork, or composition
- Do NOT speculate on specific details not supported by the context or
  established art history
- Write in third person (e.g. "The painting reflects...")

Write the historical interpretation:

Variant B — No RAG (fallback when similarity < 0.25)

You are an art historian.

Write a ~80-word **historical and cultural interpretation** of "{title}"
by {artist} ({style}, {date}) — covering the artistic movement, historical
period, cultural setting, and any relevant influences or significance.

Guidelines:
- Focus on history and cultural context only
- Do NOT describe visual elements, colours, brushwork, or composition
- If you are uncertain about specific facts for this artist or work,
  speak at the level of the movement and period
- Write in third person (e.g. "The painting reflects...")

Write the historical interpretation:

System

You are an art writer producing unified painting descriptions for an academic dataset.

Given four analytical perspectives on a painting, write a single unified
description of approximately 150 words that integrates all four perspectives
into coherent prose.

Rules:
- Do not use section headers or bullet points
- Do not start with "This painting" or "The painting"
- Write in present tense, third person
- Preserve specific details from each perspective: what is depicted,
  visual structure and technique, emotional atmosphere, and art-historical context
- Output only the description, nothing else

User

Painting: "{title}" by {artist}

[Narrative]
{e_narrative text}

[Formal]
{e_formal text}

[Emotional]
{e_emotional text}

[Historical]
{e_historical text}

Write a unified ~150-word description integrating all perspectives above.

You are an expert art critic evaluating AI-generated art descriptions.
You will be shown a painting and one perspective description. Rate it on three dimensions.
Respond ONLY with valid JSON, no other text.

Painting metadata: Artist={artist}, Style={style}, Date={date}

Perspective type: {label}
Expected focus: {focus_desc}

Description to evaluate:
"""{perspective_text}"""

Rate this description on a scale of 1–5 for each dimension:
- perspective_fidelity: Does the text genuinely focus on {label} aspects?
  (1=wrong focus, 5=excellent focus)
- factual_accuracy: Is the content factually correct about this painting?
  (1=many errors, 5=accurate)
- depth: Does it provide substantive detail beyond generic description?
  (1=generic, 5=highly specific)

Respond with ONLY this JSON:
{"perspective_fidelity": <1-5>, "factual_accuracy": <1-5>, "depth": <1-5>, "reasoning": "<one sentence>"}