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Life's an unending struggle, even in the best of times. One can never predict the ups and down, the thrusted blow and the lifting hand. It's life a pugilistic challenge, like in Amron Omar's eternal duel, against an imaginary shadowy foe. Amron Omar has been painting silat exponents in combat since 1980, with different poses, some dramatic, and in different media like oil on canvas, oil pastels and charcoal. It is about discipline and journey. The traditional martial art offers hundreds of different styles that tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, throws, bladed weaponry, or some combination thereof. More than 150 selected works from his Pertarungan series were featured in a major solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in 2012. More than fighting, it is about self-discipline, inner struggle, strategy. It is also about Nusantara heritage. Amron Omar won the Minor Award in the Bakat Muda Sezaman (Young Contemporary Artists) competition in 1982, with a self-portrait. After graduating from the Mara Institute of Technology, he joined an advertising company briefly, before going fulltime into art, keeping busy with portrait commissions, including from the Sultan of Brunei.