We discuss the issue of screening and confinement of external color ch
arges in bosonized two-dimensional quantum chromodynamics. Our computa
tion relies on the static solutions of the semiclassical equations of
motion. We consider the problem with fermions in the fundamental repre
sentation, as well as arbitrary products thereof, from which the case
of adjoint representation may be obtained by suitable constraints in t
he massless case. The mass term is treated perturbatively. Under these
assumptions, we arrive at the conclusion that, in the cases considere
d so far (fermions in the fundamental representation or arbitrary numb
ers of copies thereof) screening seems to prevail. Indeed, we found no
solution compatible to confinement. To confirm this result further, w
e outline the construction of operators corresponding to screened quar
ks.