[2] Yadamsüren grew up in a time of upheaval; Mongolia gained independence from Qing China in 1911, and by the communist Mongolian People's Republic, closely aligned with the Soviet Union, had been established.
He then trained as a political commissar at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow (1933–1937) and worked for the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party's Central Committee for a year.
[1][2] In the 1950s Yadamsüren moved away from European oil painting techniques and turned to flat, solid colours in gouache, reminiscent of earlier Buddhist art.
He also began to explore a greater diversity of subjects – not just revolutionary and patriotic, but figures from Mongolia's earlier history, and scenes from everyday pastoral life.
His 1958 work The Old Fiddler (Mongolian: Өвгөн хуурч), depicting an old man holding a morin khuur (horse-head fiddle), is credited with bringing the style to national audience.