Flexus
Beuys’s was a conceptual artist from the 1960’S flexus movement.
His work was extremely diverse ranging from traditional media of drawing, painting, and sculpture. Much of it was emphereal art from the 1950s through the early 1980s, Beuys art demonstrated how art might originate in personal experience yet also address universal artistic, political, and/or social ideas.
To process-oriented, or time-based “action” art, the performance of which suggested how art may exercise a healing effect (on both the artist and the audience) when it takes up psychological, social, and/or political subjects. Beuys is especially famous for works incorporating animal fat and felt, two common materials – one organic, the other fabricated, or industrial – that had profound personal meaning to the artist.
His 1965 solo performance, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare.
Activism in the context of art and media 