The Use Of Traditional Cultural Elements Of Contemporary Sculpture Creation In China

China traditional culture is broad and profound and has a long history. With five thousand years of cultural accumulation, the art has a unique national characteristic and is changing accompanied by the spread of culture. The culture needs to be inherited and carried forward and art also needs inheritance and innovation. In the era of rapid development of china, although modern Chinese sculpture art is influenced by western culture and arts, but there always will be a large number of artists through a variety of ways to understand and study the traditional culture, who try to make the traditional culture elements and sculpture working together better, which make the sculpture having more national characteristics. So, analysis of the elements of traditional culture in contemporary sculpture in the how to use and understand the current context of the development of contemporary sculpture is a reason of writing this article. The inheritance of the traditional culture and the historical evolution needs a process, so does the sculpture. From the selection and modelling to the final end, the spirit is through all of them. The sculpture is divided into material elements and spiritual elements in this paper, The material elements for the sculpture material and sculpture, sculpture spirit spiritual elements. In the process of research method, examples analysis and comparison method etc.. The definition and development of the extraction of the first chapter is mainly about Chinese contemporary sculpture and traditional cultural elements. The second chapter briefly illustrates the application of contemporary sculpture materials and other traditional cultural elements. The third chapter explains the embodiment of traditional cultural elements in contemporary sculpture of the spirit. The fourth chapter is about the contemporary sculpture creation using the cultural significance of traditional culture elements.