Even in the twentieth century, schools such as the Bauhaus, which sought to diminish hierarchies between artforms, revealed its gender and form hierarchy by sending women off to the weaving workshop. And if you need any more convincing that it was Western patriarchal ideals that forced these associations slowly into existence, it might come as no surprise that Le Corbusier was once quoted as saying: ‘There is a hierarchy in the arts: decorative art at the bottom, and human forms at the top. Because we are men.’
