or ne·o-sur·real·ism N0060000 (nē′ō-sə-rē′ə-lĭz′əm)n. A revival of surrealism mixed with pop art in the late 1970s and the 1980s, marked by an attempt to illustrate the bizarre imagery of dreams or the subconscious mind in painting and photography.ne′o·sur·re′al·ist n.ne′o·sur·re·al·is′tic adj.