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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 a highly complex method to the art of Coffee staining since the later part of the 1980's. He then moved to tour Central & Eastern Europe (living temporarily in Italy) durring the early 1990's.  A move to Greenpoint, Brooklyn & later to Astoria, Queens, N.Y. was funded by an internship in the later 1990's, helped start Wheeler's research ''from'' the aforementioned simpler Arfé coffee paintings, beginingan his own contemplative research & exploration into a more dense method of staining papers with coffee expressing complex possibilities into w.

What is now called ''Arfé Contemplativo'' by the artist Louis T. Wheeler who hashas become the highly stylized form of expressive drawing/painting that the artist Louis T. Wheeler continues to research coffee staining, while resideding in Austin, Texas since 2005.  Wheeler currently refines his discoveries of [[Arfé Contemplativo]] via coffee washes into, rises a more complex art form of staining. ⏎
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The artist Louis T. Wheeler can be identified under his alias [[L.T. Wheeler]] when Curating, touring or exhibiting in "Arfé Contemplativo" 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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