The Rorschach test is a psychological test designed by psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach in the early 1900s. The test involves presenting a subject with images of inkblots; the person then describes ...

Rorschach’s original 10 images were published in 1921, the year before his death. After being brought to Chicago, they spread quickly across the United States as a popular personality test.

Seven huge canvases, each about 10 by 14 feet, fill the lofty downtown space, including two on the west wall composed of glitzy gold blots that verge into the brash decorative register of rococo ...