Warhol’s Rorschachs were produced by painting one side of a massive canvas, then folding it in half to create a doubled image through the most elementary of printing techniques deployed on a monumental scale. The paintings evoke a well-known psychological test conceived by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach (1884–1922) in which subjects reveal their thoughts as they respond to pictures of undefined symmetrical forms. Warhol’s images, however, were not copies of those developed by the psychiatrist. Instead, they were based on small inkblot studies that one of his assistants produced according to the artist’s instructions. When Warhol was told that a standard set of Rorschach cards could be acquired, he expressed disappointment that he had not known early enough to simply copy those pre-existing pictures for his own art. As in the case of Warhol’s Camouflage paintings, the Rorschachs fall in between the categories of abstraction and representation. While they appear to be nonfigurative, they also reference objects with known functions.