TITLE:
The Idea of Sustainable Development Influenced on Mongolian Paintings
AUTHORS:
Selenge Tumur-Ochir
KEYWORDS:
Sustainable Development, Painting, Equality, Environmental Awareness, Visual Narrative, Mongolia
JOURNAL NAME:
Art and Design Review,
Vol.13 No.3,
August
19,
2025
ABSTRACT: Sustainable development refers to the process of preserving the safety of nature and society at all levels and maintaining the “quality of life” of present and future generations at a normal level. Dozens of social, economic, and educational sectors have been developing ways to ensure sustainable development and improve human-social cohesion. However, in this article, I intend to reflect on how the contents of art and painting are integrated into education for sustainable development. Art is an aesthetic result that aims to bring about change in society by influencing everyone and making the world we live in brighter and more enlightened. That is why today’s art has developed as a call to criticize and praise every good and bad phenomenon of mankind. Painting is the precursor of all art. The research was conducted using the method of hermeneutic interpretation of paintings and comparative methods, and a total of 224 paintings created in 2000-2010 were analyzed and graphs were made with indicators reflecting the idea of sustainable development. In the research: humanity-poverty, equality, -56 pictures; mother earth-natural resources of the mother earth, climate change, -41; peace-society with fair access, -26; prosperity-living in harmony with nature/social-realist paintings, -56. There were 46 paintings that did not reflect the educational perspective of sustainable development. Out of a total of 224 paintings in the national repertoire, 179 or 80 percent reflect the idea of sustainable development, which shows that the conceptual content of the painting reflects sustainable development. According to the above, in the meaning of the painting, social well-being, the ideology of equality, compassion for each other, urban and rural reform, climate change, and humanism are painted in realistic and modern terms. Shows that it occupies a large place in the field of education.