A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlan

A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlán is a 1985 painting by the British artist David Hockney.

The painting is one of his more hotly coloured works, being mostly red, with green and yellow, and is done in reverse perspective.

In these works, at first the perspective is conventional, and concentrates on the central well, observing points of view from walking the courtyard.

[citation needed] In the painting the detail of the columns is gone, the painter has vanished, but the viewer is presented with a space where distance is abolished.

[1] In his review of the show, Espace/Paysage, Galerie Sud, Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris, Joe Lockard observed that the space of the landscape in Hockney’s other paintings is successfully extended to an interior.