Acaso, automatismo e olhar interpretativo no desenho

This dissertation about Drawing combines one part theoretical and another artistic assembling trends or movements, through creators who sought and thought about fortuity in their artwork. Both formal and practical investigations were developed simultaneously bringing up questions related to the autonomy of the drawing, not relying on representation issues but enhancing values of perception and emotion. The theoretical part explores artists who reinforced the gesture as an autonomous instrument of knowledge. The artistic part begins with the processes enumerated previously in the artwork of several artists, to experiment new gestures and new expression possibilities. Were assembled techniques and materials that provided shade and form variations through the uncontrolled gesture and the flowing path of the paint, promoting the fortunate accidents (Dubuffet) describes. By staining, tracing and assembling was intended to achieve unexpected drawing