The country’s most striking art form is the unique traditional Mongol zurag painting, a type of story – telling art without words that may be described as a developed form of naive painting. Mongol zurag portrays everyday country life with images of people, horses and gers, combined with folk motifs and legends. Fine line drawings were coloured with natural mineral pigments, such as red ochre and charcoal, until lacquer paints became available in Mongolia.