Do you like Brahms?

Małgorzata Czyńska By Małgorzata Czyńska

Jacek Łydżba

The scene is always seductive - a girl’s head leaning over a music paper. She is absorbed by music and is just about to start playing.

The scene is always seductive – a girl’s head is lowered, her face is focused, her eyes are almost closed. She is listening intensely.

The scene is always seductive – a musical notation, and a girl’s head on it. A ready painting. Jacek Łydżba is staring and listening. He is fascinated with the musical notation and the old music sheets with classical and jazz compositions. He appreciates the sounds, however it is the beauty of old paper, manuscripts found in second-hand bookshops, and borders of book covers that really matters right now. These tracks would be a perfect musical background for romantic and erotic scenes. Performed by Łydżba, they are an appropriate background for painting. Romanticism and erotica are there too. They come out through staves, clefs, notes and rests.

Jacek Łydżba
O mia bella Napoli Tempera on old sheet music 60 x 40 centimeters [Price: PLN 1200]

Record players are making a comeback


Record players are making a comeback. They’re a must-have now. Retro style, fashion, beauty, just as it was and as it is now. A broken stylus causes no silence anymore. A broken stylus used to (…)

Record players are making a comeback. They’re a must-have now. Retro style, fashion, beauty, just as it was and as it is now.

A broken stylus causes no silence anymore. A broken stylus used to stop music for a long time. And it was really hard to get another one. A new stylus was considered a miracle. The miracle of a stylus used to be a miracle of music at the same time. It’s such a pity that so many records have been thrown out.

Jacek Łydżba
Spring kisses Tempera on old sheet music 60 x 40 centimeters [Price: PLN 1200]

Headphones in ears


Headphones in ears. Music in the pocket and out of the pocket. iTunes, always online. I never close my eyes in the darkness of concert (…)

Headphones in ears. Music in the pocket and out of the pocket. iTunes, always online. I never close my eyes in the darkness of concert halls.

Jacek Łydżba
Brahms in der Elite - Edition Tempera on old sheet music 60 x 40 centimeters [Price: PLN 1200]

Do you like Brahms?


Do you like Brahms? It’s just a pickup line to start a conversation with a woman, and to have sex with her. A trivial expression disguising the whole world. Then, the bed swayed in a different (…)

Do you like Brahms? It’s just a pickup line to start a conversation with a woman, and to have sex with her. A trivial expression disguising the whole world. Then, the bed swayed in a different rhythm.

Jacek Łydżba
Piú lento Tempera on old sheet music 60 x 40 centimeters [Price: PLN 1200]

Hotel existentialism


Hotel existentialism. A close-up on heads, faces, and hands. There have to be a cigarette and cigarette smoke. Music will be chosen (…)

Hotel existentialism. A close-up on heads, faces, and hands. There have to be a cigarette and cigarette smoke. Music will be chosen later.

Jacek Łydżba
Lettre d'amour Tempera on old sheet music 60 x 40 centimeters [Price: PLN 1200]

Be like Ingrid Bergman


Be like Ingrid Bergman, like Anthony Perkins, like Ives Montand. Beautiful to the sounds of Symphony No. 3 by Brahms. A romance, there has to be a love theme in a movie. Romanticism, of course. (…)

Be like Ingrid Bergman, like Anthony Perkins, like Ives Montand. Beautiful to the sounds of Symphony No. 3 by Brahms. A romance, there has to be a love theme in a movie. Romanticism, of course. Nothing more than that.

Jacek Łydżba
Tango tzigane Tempera on old sheet music 60 x 40 centimeters [Price: PLN 1200]

A beautiful woman


A beautiful woman. A handsome man. New Wave cinema, preferably. „Elevator to the Gallows”, „Breathless”. „A Man and a Woman" or „The Things of Life”. Meaningful look, eyelashes, (…)

A beautiful woman. A handsome man. New Wave cinema, preferably. „Elevator to the Gallows”, „Breathless”. „A Man and a Woman" or „The Things of Life”. Meaningful look, eyelashes, hairstyle and gloves.

Jacek Łydżba
Polonaise Tempera on old sheet music 60 x 40 centimeters [Price: PLN 1200]

A melody heard at this very moment


A melody heard at this very moment. For the rest of our lives, for remembrance, nostalgia, and sorrow. Even the best memories are never only joyful. The background music of our (…)

A melody heard at this very moment. For the rest of our lives, for remembrance, nostalgia, and sorrow. Even the best memories are never only joyful. The background music of our story.

Jacek Łydżba
Sérénade pour piano Tempera on old sheet music 60 x 40 centimeters [Price: PLN 1200]

She will suffer, of course


She will suffer, of course. Standard scenario. And there will come an end to her suffering. Standard scenario. Then a man, a man must (…)

She will suffer, of course. Standard scenario. And there will come an end to her suffering. Standard scenario. Then a man, a man must appear.

Jacek Łydżba


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