Question

How was realist art particularly well-suited for the industrial revolution era

Answer 1

They wanted to show realistically what was going on in factories and businesses and how difficult it was for the people. This is why some people like Upton Sinclair used their realistic methods to write about the meat packing industry in order to point out how it was exploiting workers and poisoning people. They used realism to depict what was wrong with the society of the era.