An organic EL display apparatus includes: a display panel on which a plurality of pixel sections are provided; source drivers provided with pixel drivers, which includes current drivers for supplying drive currents to the pixel sections, registers for latching data signals and timing control units; signal lines for supplying the drive currents from the current drivers to the pixel sections. Each of the current drivers is controlled by the associated timing control unit to allow a current larger than or equal to a current which is set in accordance with the data signal to flow only during a given period in a current setting mode, so that the value of a current flowing in the pixel section reaches a target value in a short time.