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ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing ArtsISSN (Online): 2582-7472
NLP Models for Artistic Statement Generation Dr. R.M. Gomathi 1 1 Associate
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sathyabama Institute
of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 2 Assistant
Professor, School of Business Management, Noida international University, India 3 Chitkara Centre for Research and Development, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, Solan, India4 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Presidency University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 5 Associate Professor, ISME - School of Management and Entrepreneurship, ATLAS Skill Tech University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 6 Centre of Research Impact
and Outcome, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, India
1. INTRODUCTION Artistic statements are an important narrative element of visual and creative processes, which provide a point of connection between the internal world of the artist and the interpretive experience of the audience. They explain the conceptual motivations, emotional resonance, thematic inspiration and cultural significance of a piece of art. Whether as part of gallery exhibitions, as part of an academic portfolio, in grant applications, on the online art market, or in digital collections, these statements help to understand the creative process from the artist's perspective Pham et al. (2023). However, despite their importance, many artists, particularly emerging artists, non-native English speakers and visually-oriented artists struggle to express their intentions clearly and coherently in writing. This challenge has led to a growing body of academic research on computational systems to support or automate the creation of artistic statements Peng (2022). Parallel to this demand, the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been transformed in the last decade. The result has been precisely to transform traditional rule-based and statistical tools into advanced deep learning architectures that are able to produce expressive and contextually rich text. Particularly, the development of transformer-based language models (GPT, T5, BART and multimodal models like CLIP-based architectures) have enabled machines to comprehend artistic language, generate narratives of a particular style and interpret a visual input in a conceptual manner. These models can synthesize descriptions that go beyond a superficial commentary, understanding deeper levels of symbolic, emotional and aesthetic meaning of artworks. With the emergence of generative AI in creative spaces, the generation of artistic statements is a promising intersection of computational linguistics, computer vision and creative practice Wu (2020), Minaee et al. (2021). Figure 1
Figure 1
Basic Block Diagram
of NLP Model in Art Statement Design The advantage of using NLP-based systems is that we can automate the generation of coherent, style-sensitive, genre-sensitive, and culturally ad hoc statements, which make the solution scalable. Such systems can also be used to foster learning environments, where the student's creative intention can be expressed more effectively while learning the language of visual expression Kim and Hardin (2021). This research can mitigate such challenges by exploring the potential of modern NLP models, specifically the transformer-based models and multimodal models, to be leveraged for the creation of high-quality artistic statements Sarwar (2023). The paper discusses previous approaches and proposes existing shortcomings and suggests a multimodal generative framework, which is then evaluated using both automated linguistic measures and the judgment of human experts. The findings provide insights into the role that AI will play in creating writing, and opportunities for meaningful human-AI collaboration in the arts. 2. Background Study The process of creating artistic statements by using computational methods is at the boundary of natural language processing, multimodal learning and creative AI. This section serves to conduct a review on the development of relevant research, including traditional language models, deep learning architectures, multimodal architectures, and the previous work in creative text generation and art interpretation Wang (2021). Together, these strands give a base for comprehension of the potential and shortcomings of NLP based artistic statement generation. Early efforts in automatic text generation have been based on rule-based systems, template-filling and symbolic grammars. The rest were created using predefined sentence structures and lexicons for that domain. While deterministic and easy to implement, they lacked expressive depth, stylistic flexibility and contextual sensitivity - all important when it comes to artistic writing Došilović et al. (2018). Computational creativity studies in the late 1990s and early 2000s tried to simulate artistic commentary using handcrafted rules, but produced repetitive, generic and incapable of capturing complex emotions and symbolic meaning. Table 1
The advent of statistical nLP was a step in the direction of corpus-based text generation. N-gram models, probabilistic grammars and Hidden Markov Models were enabling systems to learn patterns from the descriptions of artworks instead of templates being the only thing to work with. However, these methods had their limitations including the inability to model long-range dependencies and nuances of creative writing Deshpande et al. (2021). The appearance of distributed representation models such as Word2Vec, GloVe and FastText boosted the understanding of semantics by representing relationships between artistic terms - for example, "texture", "composition", "symbolism". Neural architectures like Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks contributed greatly to increasing the coherence and flow. Sequence-to-sequence models are used in the early artwork description systems to make connections between image features and narrative text. Nevertheless, conceptual depth, metaphoric reasoning and stylistic variation needed for making artistic statements eluded them Aldekhail and Almasri (2022). Table 2
These beyond capabilities are important for creating statements that go beyond the surface. Although progress has been made, there are major gaps. Most captioning systems create literal rather than conceptual descriptions. Multi-paragraph, reflective, artistic statements are covered in few studies Devlin et al. (2019). Anthropological statement generation--including bias, cultural translation, and artistry--has not been well studied, especially for culturally adaptive or genre-specific statement generation. These gaps are good reasons to need a specific multimodal NLP framework that can give context-aware, expressive, and in the concept log sense rich artistic statements. 3. Existing NLP Approaches for Artistic Text Generation Artistic text generation performance is based on the broad range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) approaches adding different amounts of linguistic richness, contextual depth, and stylistic flexibility Zhao et al. (2022). Existing approaches can be broadly divided into rule-based approaches, statistical language models, neural network architectures and transformer-based/ multimodal models. This is necessary for being able to identify their capabilities and limitations for producing expressive, conceptual and culturally embedded artistic output. 1) Rule-Based
and Template-Driven Systems Rule-based approaches are the oldest approaches to the automatic description of artwork. These systems are based on manually written rules of grammar, domain-specific lexicons and static sentence patterns to generate structured output Bozyiğit et al. (2021).
With label smoothing ϵ
In the case of artistic statement generation, models based on rules can be used to describe simple features (for example, color, shape or medium), but do not capture deeper emotional or conceptual layers. They are not creative and personal as the results are deterministic and repetitive. In spite of their shortcomings, they are still of relevance for constrained settings where interpretability and control are more important than expressiveness. 2) Statistical
Language Model Data-driven patterns were introduced into the generation of text by Statistical Methods such as n-gram models and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). By learning word sequence probabilities from artistic corpus, these models were able to improve on fluency when compared to rule-based systems [17]. Learning reduces to estimating a discrete policy over templates:
However, their dependence on the local context does not allow coherently forming long-form statements. Artistic text, which frequently embodies the need for metaphorical language, multi-sentence cohesion, and interpretive reasoning among others, cannot be appropriately modelled based on these statistical methods. As a result, they function less as practical tools for the generation of artistic narrative, and more as historical foundations for it. 3) Word
Embeddings and Distributed Representations The development of distributed representation models like Word2Vec, GloVe and FastText greatly improved semantic understanding in NLP. These embeddings learn about the relationship between artistic terms (e.g. compositional techniques, symbolisms, emotional cues) in order to be used for a more meaningful text generation effort. n-gram LM:
HMM (latent style states zt: Trained by EM, suffers from short memory. Embedding-based models set the stage for neural networks to produce more expressive narratives, but they are not yet sophisticated enough in terms of structure of artistic statements for multi-paragraph narratives. Given corpus tokens (w,c) with window N(w),
Their main contribution is to be able to enrich the semantic layer that the downstream models can take advantage. 4) Recurrent
Neural Networks and Sequence-to-Sequence Models Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTMs) networks and sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) architectures were a pivotal move towards having more coherent generative text systems. Encoder (text prompt or image tags ~1,…,x~S):
Also, these models balance temporal dependencies more effectively than statistical ones, which allows generating paragraphs with smoother transitions. Attention at decoder step ttt:
Decoder:
In combination with attention mechanisms, Seq2Seq models have improved the generation of interpretive text, such as a description of stylistic characteristics or emotional, e.g. on artworks. However, they have trouble with global coherence, performing metaphors, and upholding a constant artistic voice over longer statements, making them less effective in a professional or academic setting. 4. Proposed Algorithm: Hybrid Vision-Guided Generative Language Model (VG-GLM) Step 1] Visual Encoder Extract patch embeddings (ViT/CLIP-Vision):
Step 2] Textual Conditioning Inputs Build the textual context matrix X0X_0X0 from tokens of prompt/metadata plus style:
Step 3] Decoder State Update (Transformer LM) For autoregressive step t,
Step 4] Cross-Modal Fusion (Grounding in the Image) Use cross-attention from ht to visual keys/values K=V=ZI:
Fuse and project to token distribution:
Step 5] Maximum Likelihood Objective (Supervised) With label smoothing ϵ\epsilonϵ:
Step 6] Image–Text Alignment (Optional, CLIP-style)
Step 7] Style Regularization (Voice Control) Match generated distribution to a target style prior
Step 8] Length/Structure Regularization Control paragraph or total length TTT toward a target T∗T and penalize redundancy:
Step 9] Reinforcement Learning with Artistic Reward Define a sequence-level reward that mixes creativity, grounding, coherence, and safety:
Optimize by REINFORCE (or PPO) with baseline b:
Step 10] Joint Training Objective
Step 11] Decoding with Constraints Constrained beam search with length penalty ℓ\ellℓ and style bias ψ\psiψ:
Step 12] Post-Processing (Deterministic) Apply a non-parametric map Π(⋅) for grammar, de-duplication, and paragraphing:
The proposed hybrid model of NLP is aimed to respond to the gap between the superficial, literal descriptions of artwork, and the deeper, interpretive narrative that is part of the expectations of professional artistic statements. 5. Proposed Hybrid Vision-Guided Generative Language Model (VG-GLM) This model incorporates vision-language fusion, transformer-based language generation, stylistic conditioning, and reinforcement learning in a cohesive model that is very similar to how human artists, curators, and art historians interpret and express the meaning of visual works. By combining multimodal perception with complex modeling of the language used, the system is intended to generate multi-paragraphs, expressive and contextually grounded artistic statements that reflect both the aesthetic features of the work of art and the larger conceptual frameworks in which it is made to function. Central to the system is a visual encoder that is used to interpret the compositional, chromatic and textural features of the artwork. This encoder is usually based on a Vision Transformer (ViT) or a CLIP-based visual model that converts a raw image into a high-dimensional representation which is used for capturing patterns such as balance, contrast, subject matter, brushwork and stylistic elements. By making this visual understanding the foundation of the text generation process that follows, the system can help keep the end results of that process tied to the properties of the actual artwork and not get lost in generic or irrelevant commentary. Figure 2
Figure 2
Hybrid Multimodal
NLP for Artistic Statement Generation In other words, this training allows the model to internalize the linguistics of the art world, including the use of metaphorical descriptions, reflective reasoning, framing within context, and the expressive language used to discuss visual culture in academic and creative writing. To increase stylistic control further, the system includes a style-conditioning mechanism in which the generator could be instructed to generate writing in a specific voice - whether it be poetic, minimalist, academic, culturally-grounded or emotionally-introspective. This is allowing customization depending on the genre of art, the medium or the audience. One of the key aspects of the model is the cross-modal fusion process that integrates the visual and the textual stream. During text generation, the decoder does not work in an insular way, but is constantly paying attention to the visual embeddings of the artwork. This cross attention mechanism allows the model to incorporate visual signals (i.e. dominant colors, compositional flow, symbolic motifs etc) directly into the unfolding narrative. This includes adjusting the flow of the grammar, ensuring that the style of the paragraphs is consistent with each other, removing redundant phrases, and adjusting the length of the statement to a normal level as according to the professional standards. Through this series of processes, the hybrid NLP model turns out to produce polished, articulate and culturally-sensitive artistic statements that conform to the ranges of curatorial writing and professional arts communications. The integration of vision, language, style control and reinforcement learning aligned with human intent eventually enables the system to perform well in one area where previous models have struggled - the ability to capture the complexity, intentionality and emotional resonance of visual art through coherent and compelling narrative form. 6. Evaluation and Experimental Design The performance evaluation of an artistic statement generation model therefore requires a methodology that accounts both for the linguistic quality of generated text as well as conceptual similarity between narrative and artwork. This curated data set forms the basis of the empirical data set on which the performance of the model is measured. Automated evaluation metrics are playing an important role in the evaluation of the baseline linguistic quality. During the evaluation phase, the system is compared to the generated statements with reference texts by the use of established measures like BLEU, ROUGE, METEOR etc. to estimate the overlapping of phrasing, vocabulary, and syntactic patterns. Figure 3 |
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Table 3 Summary of Automated Evaluation Metrics |
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Model |
BLEU
↑ |
ROUGE-L
↑ |
METEOR
↑ |
BERTScore ↑ |
Visual–Text
Similarity ↑ |
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LSTM
Baseline |
18.5 |
0.34 |
0.21 |
0.72 |
0.62 |
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Transformer Fine-Tuned |
31.2 |
0.47 |
0.32 |
0.84 |
0.73 |
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Hybrid
Proposed Model |
38.7 |
0.55 |
0.39 |
0.9 |
0.82 |
The evaluations provided by human beings are even stronger arguments in regards to the capability of the model. The radar chart indicates that the experts had continuously placed the outputs of the hybrid system in the statements written by human beings in a closer proximity upon the interpretive depth in style, creativity and cultural sensitivity. There was also significant enhancement in the grounding ability as was reported by the reviewers as a result of the hybrid model capability of including the visual cues when creating the narratives. The primary cause of this improved alignment appears to be the cross-modal fusion mechanism where the decoder will pay attention to the attributes of the artwork during text production.
Table 4
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Table 4 Human Evaluation Score Comparison |
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Evaluation
Criterion |
Human
Reference |
Transformer
Model |
Hybrid
Model |
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Interpretive
Depth |
4.8 |
3.9 |
4.5 |
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Stylistic Coherence |
4.6 |
4.1 |
4.4 |
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Visual
Grounding |
4.7 |
3.6 |
4.3 |
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Cultural Sensitivity |
4.6 |
3.9 |
4.4 |
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Creativity |
4.8 |
4 |
4.6 |
The hybrid system scores almost as high in all qualitative dimensions and is superior in interpretive richness and stylistic accuracy and cultural sensitivity than other automated systems. This finding is also supported by the distribution of the similarity scores of visual-texts. In the hybrid approach as compared to the model with transformer only, the clustering of larger similarity value is more compact meaning that the text that was generated is more related to the visual characteristics of the artwork. This indicates a significant entrenching of the image embeddings in the generation process and not the generic language of art. The other strength of the hybrid model is contained in the correlation between perplexity and creativity ratings. The perplexity is strongly related to the score of the human creativity, and the lower the perplexity, the higher the score of the creativity (this fact can inform future studies on the interpretation of the concept of creativity). In comparison to the two models of comparison, the hybrid system always exists at the low perplexity high creativity area. Lastly, the error analysis demonstrates that the hallucinations, style inconsistencies, and misunderstandings have reduced greatly. The hybrid model has more governed and precise narrative behavior that is probably due to the reinforcement learning with artistic reward signals. This is a process that punishes the unsubstantiated assertions and encourages the grounded consistent descriptions. Comprehensively, the findings indicate that hybrid multimodal model is a significant progress in generation of artistic statements. It produces more eloquent, visual, and conceptually advanced stories than existing strategies therefore making it an excellent candidate of real-world implementations of digital curation, creative support instruments, and educational settings.
8. Conclusion
This study suggested a hybrid NLP model of the generation of expressive and contextually-sensitive artistic utterances by applying visual comprehension, transformer-based language modeling, and stylistic conditioning and reinforcement learning. The model addresses the significant weaknesses of existing methods because it combines multimodal perceptual incentives and high-level narrative generative methods in order to be capable of generating coherent and conceptually rich interpretations, as opposed to simple descriptive captions. The system demonstrates the capacity to intuit the aesthetic qualities of the artwork, through a highly well-constructed combination of visual embeddings and linguistic expertise, as well as replicates the qualities of tonal and structural qualities of professional artistic writing. The aptitude of the model to produce meaningful stylistically and visually-grounded statements is confirmed by the use of experiential evaluation measures i.e. the automatic multimodal alignment measures and also an expert human rating of the generated content. Although the approach has its advantages, it has to struggle with the issue of diversity of data, the question of cultural sensitivity and its interpretive subjectivity, and computational complexity. The paper provides a strong foundation on which research in the field of AI-aided artistic communication and the ways in which intelligent systems can be applied to complement, rather than substitute, the creativity of humans.
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