"Other ways of knowing," aka Different Cognitive Styles

[AlbertCat]

89. He argues that the art student must rely on intuitive rather than rational information processing ..

... in order to draw accurately from observation. "

Baloney!

Drawing is a skill. You must learn (with your brain) to draw what you see, not what you know. Children often draw what they know. Therefore you get a blue streak at the top of the page because the sky is above you and a green streak at the bottom because the grass is below you. But of course what you see is blue and green meeting at a horizon that is about level with your eyes.

You learn this the same why you learn everything else.... with your brain using chemicals under the law of physics. There are a myriad of exercises (like drawing the space between objects) to train yourself to draw what you see. There are even very rational rules to perspective you learn. Drawing is rationally translating what you see into a bunch of techniques that satisfy the brain with a 2-d, stripped down representation of something 3-d. Some people may be inclined to pick up these long evolved "rules" and "tricks" better than others, but they are rational rules, not some "other way of knowing".