The Study Of Creating Art Symbols Of City Sculptures In The Public Art

City sculpture is a part of public art which is a dispensable element in modern city environment and urban sight. As a symbol of spiritual civilization and material civilization, it coherences one city's history and culture. City sculpture is a symbol phenomenon in vision space designing, it could mark a city's characteristic, prettify public space, succeed national culture, and uncover public spirit. It is the testimony and epitome of human culture. Therefore, investigating art symbol in city sculpture design has great value and necessity. It will open up a wide road for enlarging manifestation of city sculpture design and will perfecting the chinization of designing language.This paper thoroughly analyzed the development and significance of sculpture art symbol as well as its format classification, illustrated its style feature and component characteristics in detail, discussed the exercises and innovations of traditional culture symbol using on the modern urban sculptures in depth. Demonstrated the rationality and necessity of using semiotics principles to guide city sculpture designing. Went deep to investigate the format and composition characteristics of city sculpture, put forward the principles of establishing city sculpture symbol, it includes the following:1. Apply and refer to traditional culture symbol2. Extrude territory culture3. Utilize humanities culture4. Illustrate contemporary characteristicsThis study combined the Changsha city street sculptures, focal pointed the integrity of topic and environment of city sculptures, and the patterns of manifestation of sculptures. And stressed that the ultimate aim of city sculptures is the participation of the public. By means of this study, we would explore more symbol features, better inherit and promote traditional culture symbols, preserve connoation and charming of our traditional symbols in worldwide, create more sculpture symbols with our nationality characteristics.