Yes; a massive influence.
The important thing is that she was a massive influence on art …
Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings; substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness; repulsive, meaningless art.”
— Goals 22 and 23 respectively of the 45 communist goals for the USA
She’s one of the greats of art. I’m grateful the majority can recognize her quality. Her personal life was her business and I have no interest in looking thru keyholes into other people’s lives. I put my joy into looking at the walls of museums.
Few artists live lives that are the norm. Perhaps their creativity springs from their open-mindedness. But what a loss the world would have had if artists were forced into the mold of the most conservative thinkers.