Noted: ?I don?t believe in that thing called art,? he says in the film. ?I think people make stuff.? Elena Bertozzi, his partner, who is an assistant professor of art at the University of Wisconsin, calls this ?just ridiculous, because he knows he?s an artist.? Indeed, Mr Kennedy trained as a fine printer in the MFA programme at the University of Wisconsin, before embarking on the more unorthodox route of printing posters on chipboard for the masses. He shed a middle-class existence and family on the way.