An image display apparatus is disclosed in the present invention. The image display apparatus includes a light source emitting an illumination light of at least two colors comprising a first color and a second color, at least two spatial light modulators for receiving and applying an image signal for modulating the illumination light emitted from the light source; and a control circuit for controlling the light source and/or the spatial light modulators to emit the illumination lights of different colors for modulation by the SLM to generate different gray scale characteristics between lights of different colors.