The essence of art is truly in the eye of the beholder, and Joseph Beuys redefined the meaning of art when he once said that "every man is a visual artist who must determine things for himself. » We can ask ourselves the million dollar question: “Who is Joseph Beuys?” Joseph Beuys was a German-born conceptual artist who began pursuing an artistic career after serving as an aviator during World War II. Beuys' body of work ranges from conventional methods of drawing, painting, and sculpture to process-oriented or time-based "action" art. With his temporal “actions,” Beuys suggested how art could exert a healing property on both the artist and the audience when influenced by psychological, social, and political influence. Beuys was a crucial member of the Fluxus movement of the 1960s, along with his contemporaries Yoko Ono and Nam June Paik. During the movement, many artists became dissatisfied with the traditional standards of heroic, religious, or rather object-oriented painting and sculpture that had been in place long before them. Influenced in part by existing musical experiments, these artists found themselves moving away from the predominant customs of the artistic community in favor of found and everyday objects to create momentary, time-based actions, ephemeral art installations and d other largely action-oriented events. According to an interview with Erwin Heerich, a friend of Beuys, “Contact with Fluxus gave the question of art and life, in Beuys's mind, a radically different meaning. He recognized in Fluxus a vital current which released new impulses within him. --and it is here that the other side of Beuys appeared, his powerful sensitivity and his talent for public space and the media. middle of paper......in Kassel Germany, each accompanied by a 4 foot basalt stone marker, Beuys believed that not only would oaks help improve the biosphere, but trees would also improve the environment. consciousness, would represent people's lives and their daily work, and that the trees represented redevelopment, which in itself is a notion of time. Through the successful conceptualization and execution of his "action" installations, Joseph Beuys was able to present how he and many others thought about issues related to psychology, social structure, and politics. The messages in Beuys' works may not have been clear to many, but he sought to show that all humans are creative and that art is not meant to be easy to understand because there would be no no need for art if it was. I believe that Joseph Beuys can be considered one of the greatest temporal interpreters of his time..