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.