A display apparatus and a control method which displays an image based on an image signal transmitted from the outside are provided. The display apparatus includes a display which generates light in a plurality of colors and displays an image; a signal receiver which receives an image signal; a signal processor which processes the received image signal in order to display an image based on the image signal; and a controller which analyzes the image signal received by the signal receiver and obtains color reproduction feature information of the image signal, and changes each color distribution of light generated by the display to display an image in a color which corresponds to the color reproduction feature information obtained, based on the image signal.