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Amron Omar continues to explore the Pertarungan series in various media such as oil, pastels and charcoal. Silat, to him, is a self-therapy through the motions of pugilism and a symbol of struggle against real and phantom demons. 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 works from Amron Omar's Pertarungan series over three decades were shown at the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur from February to August 2012. After graduating from Mara Institute of Technology in 1980, he worked briefly for an advertising company but decided to go full-time into art in 1983, specialising in portraits for royalty, dignitaries, corporate captains of industry and also the commoner. He won the Minor Award in the Young Contemporary Artists competition in 1982 with a self-portrait.