Basso, Aline Teresinha, 1981-2018-10-152018-10-152018-05In: Expressão múltipla : teoria e prática do desenho. - Lisboa, 2017, p. 40-64http://hdl.handle.net/10451/35044The reflection proposed here derives from my PhD research, in which I dwell on some classic chinese painting manuals in search of connections with the practice of contemporary and western drawing. Traditional Chinese painting, in addition to being contemplative, is essentially graphic and very close to what we conceive today by drawing. One of the main structuring bases with respect to its materiality is the trace. It is also the trace one of the issues that has been occupying my artistic investigations. Therefore, I discuss the theory, the materiality, the process, the gesturality, and the active and impermanent character of the trace. I try to think of it not only as a writing of thought, but as a transforming action on the surface of the paper, which produces fictions and resignifies the void of a blank pageporDesenhoTraçoLinhasPintura chinesaMaterialidadePensamento artísticoOcidenteInvestigação artísticaEnsaiosbook part