In this article there are described some aspects of the presence of cultural archetypes in painting. The archetypes in art and painting manifest themselves in symbolic form and give to the artistic work a certain philosophical meaning and deep meanings. The source of symbolic archetypes are ancient myths, fairy tales, legends, stories, folklore. The content of these cultural archetypes is typical for a certain culture or the whole of humanity, in this sense they are universal, objective and transpersonal. Cultural archetypes reveal their content through iconic concepts in graphic form, through visual images determined by the cultural environment and the metaphorical way of representation (ethno-cultural archetypes). These cultural forms in art and painting, are gradually transformed into symbols, metaphors, associations, with multiple meanings and senses, and represent simplified models, schemes, images and representations, which derive from the human subconscious and the universal collective unconscious. Every archetypal image, imported into the creative human psyche, takes the simplest form of sign or symbol. The archetypal symbols are a well-defined language and are a presence and possibility for finding the true meaning. Related to the artistic dimension, they appear in the painting, in the form of different symbolic and significant images, based on specific associations, described by the language of metaphors, allegories, sometimes materialized in unconscious images, often spontaneous and intuitive, deeply embedded in the subconscious - content that successfully it is exploited by art and especially by painting.