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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'.

Other 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, then quickly moving to Central Europe (mostly Italy) temporarily in the early 1990's & later to New York City in the later 1990's to research other. A move to Brooklyn & then to Queens, N.Y. funded by an internship in the later 1990's was the start of Wheeler's research of simple coffee paintings began a further exploration of heavier contemplative & complex possibilities with respect to what he called ''aArfé nuoContemplativo''; Louis T. Wheeler currentlymoved to & resides in Austin, Texas since 2005 and is currently refining his [[Arfé-Nuo Contemplativo]] stains. The artist Louis T. Wheeler can beis also identified under anhis alias [[L.T. Wheeler]] when touring or exhibiting in ''arfé''Arfé Contemplativo related projects/group exhibits., or Politically centered art statement exhibit using newer & more complex coffee stain technique.  

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

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