Getting a six-pack abs is an ideal for men, what with a well-sculpted Michelangelo form, the veritable modern-day Adonis. With a bronzed well-honed body in sepia tones, the male model in side profile looking left is shown with the delicate lines front and back of the dorsum. His left arm is outstretched with the fingers slightly curled towards viewer. Ahmad Zakii Anwar’s understanding of the male anatomy, with the muscular and skeletal system, is superb and when he graduated from the Mara Institute of Technology in 1977, the strictures of the Islamic Revolution of the Ayatollah Khomeiny of the 1980s were yet to take rein, forbidding any deification of face and the sensual body. After graduating with Graphic Design from the Mara Institute of Technology in 1977, Ahmad Zakii had a lucrative career in Advertising but decided to switch to Fine Art. He was an immediate hit with his cool Smokers Series (1997) and his dark vignettes of urban realism. A series of significant solos abroad and at home led to his major mid-career survey exhibition called Disclosure at Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, in 2008. His solos abroad include Presence (New York, 1999); Shadowland (Hong Kong, 2001); Sublimal (The Philippines and also Thailand, 2006); Baik Art (South Korea, 2013); in Indonesia – Borobudur, Amanjiwa, Arangbali (2004), Kota Sunyi (2007), Nafsu (2010); and in Singapore – Paintings Drawings and Prints 1991-2007 (2007), Bones & Sinews (2011), Being (2009), Primordial Dream (2005) and .Distant Gamelan (1981). His Kuala Lumpur solos include Kota Sepi (VWFA, 2012), Interpreter of Desires (Taksu, 2003) and Icons (Richard Koh FA, 2005). His auction record was achieved at The EDGE June 2013 auction, where his work fetched a premium of RM115,500.