Early life and education
Suprani began painting as a teenager and trained for several years in the workshop of Pedro Centeno Vallenilla. When she took up cartooning, she gave up painting for a long time. She graduated from theCareer
At a very early age, she began to work for the journal ''Economics Today''. After working at ''El Diario de Caracas'', she became the principal cartoonist at ''El Universal''. Suprani was ''El Universals chief cartoonist for 19 years.Art exhibition
In 2012, having returned to large-format work, Suprani held her first solo exhibition, “Frente al espejo” (Facing the Mirror), at the Galería D’Museo del Centro de Arte Los Galpones de Los Dos Caminos. A writer for ''El Universal'' noted that Suprani's canvases displayed “the same critical spirit that has characterized her drawings and cartoons from the beginning. Scathing, sometimes. Ironic, sometimes. Corrosive, almost always.” “It is another Rayma Suprani,” wrote Alfonso Molina about the exhibition. The paintings, he maintained, represented “a demonstration of strength and courage that excited me, showed me another side of the same creator.”Other activities
Suprani has also drawn magazine covers, and the best of her cartoons have been collected in books.Dismissal
According to ''the Guardian'', her last cartoon, published in ''El Universal'' on September 17, 2014, “showed a normal-looking electrocardiogram under the heading 'Health', and below it the late former president Hugo Chávez's signature merging with a flatlining heartbeat under the words 'Health in Venezuela'.” The cartoon, wrote ''the Guardian'', “combined two nationally sensitive subjects: the legacy of Chávez, and the socialist government's management of the healthcare system.” ''The Guardian'' noted that medical personnel had “long claimed the economic chaos engulfing the country has led to chronic shortages of drugs and medical supplies,” and further pointed out that since Chávez's death the previous year, “his signature, always printed in red, has become a symbol of loyalty to the leader....It has been stamped across buildings and can often be seen tattooed on the arms of his supporters.” Only hours after the publication of the cartoon, Suprani was fired. “My immediate boss called me and told me he didn't like my caricature and I was out,” she said. “We've become a country where if you say things, have your own criteria and try to provoke reflection, it's not well viewed.” ''The Guardian'' stated that ''El Universal'' had recently been sold to “a little-known Spanish company called Epalistica, which employees at the newspaper allege is a front for a pro-government group of investors,” and that since the sale, the paper had shifted from an anti-government stance to a more government-friendly stance, resulting in the dismissal or resignation of several columnists. The newspaper ''El Tiempo'' also stated that since its change of ownership, ''El Universal'' had become more pro-government. “The government has gone and bought the news media that it can't silence,” Suprani said in an interview on ''Unionradio'', noting the government's previous acquisition of ''Globovisión'' and of the newspapers that had formerly belonged toPersonal life
Suprani has three dogs, Lucy, Blue and Churchill, and a cat named Osho.References
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