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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, then quickly moving to Central Europe (mostly Italy) temporarily in the early 1990's. 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 ''Arfé Contemplativo''; Louis T. Wheeler moved to & resides in Austin, Texas since 2005 and is currently refining his [[Arfé Contemplativo]] stains. The artist Louis T. Wheeler is also identified under his alias [[L.T. Wheeler]] when touring or exhibiting in 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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