Paris in those years was witnessing the emergence of [[cubism]] in paintings by such eminent painters as [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]], [[Georges Braque|Braque]] and [[Paul Cézanne|Cezanne]]. From 1913 to 1918 Rivera himself enthusiastically embraced this new school of art, as his masterly cubist paintings from this time demonstrate. His paintings began to attract attention; and was able to display them at several exhibitions.
==Domestic life in Europe==
In his undisciplined and increasingly [[Machismo|violent private life]] Rivera fathered many children from brief affairs, abandoning all of them. In 1915, whilst still married in common-law marriage to the artist Angelina Beloff, who in 1916 bore him his only son, Diego Jr. who, he himself relationship with the Russian emigrée [[Cubism|cubist]] painter [[Marie Vorobieff]]-Stebelska ([[Marevna]]), who herself on 13 November 1919 bore him a daughter, named Marika.[http://www.vancemartin.com/artists/mcbean/mcbean01.html]
