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'''Arfé''' is the creation of artworks by staining with [[coffee]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E0D8163EF930A35754C0A96E958260 |title= About New York; Double Mocha With a Shot Of Watercolor |author=David Gonzalez |date=1998-07-03 |publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''}}</ref>

The term may have been [[Neologism|coined]] by Puerto Rican artist, [[Francisco Rivera Rosa]], describing his [[painting]]s of using coffee. The word comes from a combination of the words ''art'' and ''café''. Thus, ''arfé'' is a [[portmanteau]]. It is sometimes spelled arfe and pronounced like "barf" by its critics. This art is also known as simple as '[[Coffee Painting]]' or 'Coffee Art'.

AOther artists [[Mira Chudasama]] & [[Amita Chudasama]], [[Andrew Saur]] and [[Angel Sarkela-Saur]] also paint with coffee staining technique.  

California born artist [[Louis T. Wheeler]] discovered and refined the process of what he coined as '''arfé nuovo''' staining %100 cotton paper with rich (ILLY) Espresso coffee since the late end of the 1980's and later moved temporarily to Central Europe (mostly Italy) in the early 1990's & later to New York City in the later 1990's to research other possibilities with respect to ''arfé nuovo''; Louis T. Wheeler currently resides in Austin, TX refining his neo-arfé stains & sometimes uses the alias [[L.T. Wheeler]] when touring or exhibiting in ''arfé'' related projects.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://web.me.com/coffeeartist/site/home.html Official ''Arfé'' Web Site]

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California born artist, Louis T. Wheeler also paints with Espresso coffee since the late 1980's.  He moved to New York City in the early 1990's and now resides in Austin, TX refining his stains.