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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 aArtists [[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) during 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 simple Arfé coffee paintings, began his own contemplative research & exploration into a more dense method of staining papers with coffee. Wheeler currently refines his discovery of [[Arfé Contemplativo]] through a variation of coffee washes, into a more complex art style coffee staining. The artist [[Louis T. Wheeler]] has been identified under his alias [[L.T. Wheeler]] when curating, exhibiting or touring in "Arfé Contemplativo" related projects.  ''Arfé Contemplativo'' has become a highly stylized form of expressive drawing/painting that the artist Louis T. Wheeler is best known for, and he continues to research the art of [[Arfé Contemplativo]]coffee staining, while residing in Austin, Texas since 2005.  ⏎
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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://web.me.com/coffeeartist/site/home.html Official ''Arfé'' Web Site]

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