What Do You Think?

As we launch the new century, take a moment to reflect back on art of the twentieth century. Share your opinions with us at 1001days@nmaa.si.edu. Selected comments will be posted next month.

Earlier this month, H. Lyman Säyen, an early participant in modern art in the United States, was quoted. He forecast that modern art "will become more and more understood and what is popularly taken as a decadence is no more than a renaissance of the true spirit of the art of antiquity."

On Norman Rockwell's birthday, critic Richard Lacayo wondered "what 20th century art might have been like if it had not been so quick to put aside anecdote, draftsmanship and the raptures of watching paint do its dead-on imitations of other stuff. In short, what it might have been like if it valued more what Rockwell did."

Do you have an opinion? Let us know what you think.

Pictured: Moses Soyer, Artists on WPA,1935, oil, 36 1/8 x 42 1/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Moses Soyer.