--- title: "Abstract sky penis above Ramstein Air Base evokes early Modernist themes" description: "The image makes up for its lack of anatomical realism with its throbbing impulse to break from traditional modes of representation." date: "2020-11-19" modified: "2020-11-19" authors: - name: "David Roza" job_title: "YouTube Writer/Editor" link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/david-roza/" url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/sky-penis-ramstein-air-base/" categories: - "Aircraft" - "Culture" - "Fighter Aircraft" - "Mandatory Fun" - "Tech & Tactics" --- # Abstract sky penis above Ramstein Air Base evokes early Modernist themes ![]() Much like how the mechanization of early 20th-century Europe influenced Picasso, Braque, and Metzinger, it appears that the pressures of COVID-19, a presidential election, and countless other upheavals are pushing the U.S. military’s foremost sky penis artists to produce ever more radical images of their most treasured sex organ. Indeed, a sky penis that appeared over Ramstein Air Base, Germany this week makes up for its lack of anatomical realism with its sheer, throbbing impulse to break from our traditional modes of representation and introduce new forms of seeing and being. “By breaking objects and figures down into distinct areas – or planes – the artists aimed to show different viewpoints at the same time and within the same space and so suggest their three dimensional form,” writes the [Tate]() on the definition of cubism, which may help one begin to understand the profundity of the Ramstein School's debut work. The U.S. Air Forces in Europe did not respond to requests for comment on the image. That could be because the public affairs shop has better things to do, or because it was a willful effort to destabilize our notions of the artist and modes of production. Either way, it’s beautiful! Whoever created this image (if images are, indeed, created), deserves a proud place in line with their forebears, such as those found at the [Miramar School](), the [Whidbey Movement](), and the [Eielson Project](). Ramstein has most certainly sprung up, as it were, on the art world’s radar, and we will keep a close eye upon it for future bursts of pure avant-garde energy. ***Related: [The Military’s Phallus Fixation: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Sky Dongs.]()*** ## Author David Roza writes scripts about military news for the Task & Purpose YouTube channel, and he also writes articles about military pay, benefits, health care, child care, culture, and other personnel topics on a freelance basis. Roza previously covered the Air Force and Space Force for Task & Purpose from 2019 to 2023 and for Air & Space Forces Magazine from 2023 to 2025. In the course of that reporting, he has set off a ‘Hollywood explosion’ with Air Force bomb techs, turned the (unarmed) keys of a nuclear missile bunker, hovered over the Nevada desert on an Air Force rescue helicopter, and got the best sleep of his life on the floor of a C-17 over the central Pacific. Share tips and story ideas with David at [david.roza@teamrecurrent.io]()