From mind to picture: A systematic review on children’s and adolescents’ understanding of the link between artists and pictures

• Systematic review of 42 articles examining the artist-picture relationship. • Intention awareness develops earlier than attention to other artist attributes. • Interview data show richer but delayed understandings compared to experimental data. • Future research to focus on how artist attributes are understood beyond intention. • A clearer model of understanding the artist-picture relationship is encouraged. Pictorial symbols have multiple...